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Four people were reported killed Sunday in a gun battle in restive eastern Ukraine, shattering a fragile Easter truce ...

Several hundred Islamists have been killed in airstrikes and direct combat in Mali since France launched an offensive ...

United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammond MP is scheduled to arrive in Indonesia on Tuesday for a ...

Japan will increase military spending in 2013 for the first time in more than a decade, the ruling party said Tuesday, ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is monopolising power and preparing the ground for a return to dictatorship, ...

Hungary`s President Pal Schmitt resigned Monday, after he was stripped last week of his 1992 doctorate title following ...

Australia said Wednesday it may allow the United States to use its territory to operate long-range spy drones, as part ...

China on Friday urged restraint ahead of the launch of a North Korean rocket, after Tokyo said it was readying its ...

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Southeast Asia is a stable and secure region thanks to the ever increasing ...

Palestinian groups are planning celebrations to mark Israel`s imminent release of hundreds of prisoner "heroes" in ...

The Laotian government has congratulated the Indonesian National Defense Forces (TNI) on its 66th anniversary which ...

Australian women will be allowed to serve in front line combat roles, including as special forces soldiers in ...

European Union states on Friday called for "more robust" action from the international fleet in the Indian Ocean to ...

German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Saturday said two German soldiers were killed in a Taliban suicide ...

Egypt on Saturday reopened its Rafah border crossing with Gaza, allowing people to cross freely for the first time in ...