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Former cricketer Imran Khan sworn-in as Pakistan`s prime minister

Former cricket star Imran Khan was sworn in as prime minister of Pakistan on Saturday, taking on the challenge of ...

one police officer killed, two wounded in paris shooting - (d)

One policeman was killed and two others wounded in a shooting incident in central Paris on Thursday night, police and ...

Suicide bomber kills at least 63 at Pakistan hospital

A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 63 people and wounded dozens more in an attack on mourners gathered at a ...

Munich gunman raised locally, no ties to Islamic State

A German-Iranian teenager who killed nine people and then himself in Munich had undergone psychiatric treatment and ...

Second blast hits Somali hotel, attackers and police exchange fire

A second explosion rocked a hotel in the centre of the Somali capital on Sunday and security forces exchanged fire ...

Obama in Ethiopia on africa tour to boost security, other ties

Barack Obama met the Ethiopian prime minister on Monday on the first visit by a serving U.S. president to a nation ...

Al Qaeda in Yemen claims responsibility for Paris attack

Al Qaeda in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, saying it was ...

Donor states urge peace talks as aid pledged to Gaza

Washington called Sunday for renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians as a donor conference pledged ...

1,000 fighters from Asia join IS group: US Commander

About 1,000 volunteers from the Asia-Pacific region have sought to join the Islamic State group, a senior military ...

Cairo bomb blast leaves two police officers dead

At least two policemen were killed when a bomb exploded near a checkpoint outside the foreign ministry headquarters in ...

Hamas agrees 12-hour truce from Saturday morning

A Hamas official told AFP on Saturday that the Islamist militant group would observe a 12-hour Gaza ceasefire starting ...

Gunmen kill 4 soldiers southeast of Nigeria`s Jos

Gunmen killed four Nigerian soldiers on Monday (May 26) in an ambush on a military patrol in central Plateau state, ...

Hundreds protest in Ghana over abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram

Hundreds of women here Sunday staged a peaceful protest against the kidnapping of the over 200 students from a ...

Islamists destroy saint`s Mali tomb: officials

Islamists have destroyed the tomb of a Muslim saint in a northern Mali region under their control, two months after ...

Fifteen Egyptian police killed in Sinai border attack

At least 15 Egyptian policemen were killed and seven wounded in an armed attack on a police station in North Sinai on ...