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Indonesian authorities have rescued a tug boat with nine crew believed to have been hijacked in the Straits of ...

A senior Israeli cabinet minister on Monday said that a planned meeting with Palestinian negotiators after a 16-month ...

Egypt`s military ruler decreed on Sunday that multi-phase elections for parliament`s consultative upper house, the ...

Al-Qaeda has sent militants to Libya in a bid to recruit a fighting force after the fall of Moamer Kadhafi`s regime, ...

At least 33 people died when a cyclone hit southern India, officials said on Saturday as engineers rushed to restore ...

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta conveyed his "deep concern" to Egypt`s military ruler over police raids on ...

A Sudanese helicopter gunship crashed at an air base in North Kordofan state on Friday, official media said, but there ...

A woman writer was sentenced to five years in prison in Vietnam for spreading anti-government propaganda, state media ...

All six crewmen aboard a Sudanese military helicopter were killed when it crash-landed and burned in North Kordofan ...

The Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry is investigating news about its citizen working at Doctor Without Borders camp ...

China said Thursday police killed seven "terrorists" who took hostages in the nation`s restive Xinjiang region during ...

Israeli police arrested six Jewish extremists on suspicion of attacking an army base in the northern West Bank this ...

China on Thursday expressed its support for Arab monitors in protest-hit Syria, after France charged the team had not ...

Two soldiers with the French Foreign Legion serving in Afghanistan were on Thursday shot dead by a man wearing an ...

Kyrgyzstan`s new leader said Thursday it was "very dangerous" for his Central Asian nation to host a US military base ...