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South Korea`s navy has rescued all crew members aboard a South Korean chemical ship hijacked by Somali pirates in the ...

The African Union (AU) has extended the mandate of its peacekeeping force in Somalia for another year, defying demands ...

An Italian serving with NATO-led forces in Afghanistan was shot dead by an Afghan soldier earlier this week, the force ...

At least 48 people were killed in Iraq on Thursday in bombings targeting Shi`ite pilgrims and police, a third day of ...

Authorities temporarily evacuated the New York offices of Israel`s Bank Hapoalim on Wednesday because of a suspicious ...

Thirty-three members of deposed Tunisian leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali`s family have been arrested on suspicion ...

More than a quarter of drinking wells in Vietnam`s densely-populated Red River delta contain unsafe levels of arsenic ...

A blast caused by exploding gas cylinders ripped through a minibus in a northwest Pakistani town on Monday, killing at ...

A Chinese porcelain manufacturing company has won the order to make the official tableware to be used at the British ...

Nebraska`s 17-year-old Teresa Scanlan was named Miss America Saturday becoming the youngest winner ever in the ...

President Barack Obama stressed U.S. support for Pakistan during a meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari on ...

Argentine thieves stole at least $68,000 that was meant to be used as spending money for officials during a trip by ...

The Philippines and the country`s main Muslim separatist group agreed on Thursday to resume peace talks next month, ...

Rescue workers struggled on Thursday to reach areas cut off by floods and landslides that have killed at least 356 ...

Three helicopter crew members contracted to the U.N. World Food Programme were kidnapped in Darfur on Thursday, the ...