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British military police have launched an investigation into claims that two servicemen abused children in Afghanistan, ...

The United States voiced concern Tuesday at the latest deadly inter-ethnic clashes in South Sudan, which it said had ...

Peruvian Vice President Omar Chehade, once seen as a close ally of President Ollanta Humala, resigned Tuesday amid a ...

Several Tuareg rebels and one soldier died Tuesday in clashes between the Malian army and rebel forces in the ...

Amid an escalating diplomatic row, Venezuela on Monday recalled its US consular staff in Miami, saying they faced ...

Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in Iraq`s western desert, close to the Syrian and Jordanian borders, killing five ...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged the Security Council to act on Syria as President Bashar al-Assad came under new ...

African Union Commission chairman Jean Ping arrived in Libya on Monday for his first visit since the overthrow of ...

Free at last after years locked up by the junta, prominent Myanmar dissidents have vowed to keep up their fight for ...

Syria`s President Bashar al-Assad has decreed a general amnesty for crimes committed during unrest in the country over ...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Sunday called for an end to Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, saying the ...

A suicide bomber killed 20 people in an apparent sectarian attack in south Iraq Saturday casting a pall over the ...

Russia warned the West on Friday that new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme will be seen by the world ...

The United States believes Iran is supplying munitions to aid Syria`s bloody protest crackdown in an initiative ...

At least 14 paramilitary soldiers were killed when gunmen ambushed their vehicles in the insurgency-hit southwest ...