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President Barack Obama and Uzbekistan`s President Islam Karimov discussed expanding U.S. use of the central Asian ...

Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani and head of the council tasked with trying to negotiate a political end to ...

Three Chechens, one of them closely linked to Russia`s most-wanted militant leader, were buried on Monday after they ...

Palestinians in Gaza have acquired anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets from Libya during its six-month civil war, ...

A gun and suicide attack on an Afghan governor`s compound killed 22 people on Sunday in the latest Taliban assault ...

China`s first aircraft carrier has begun its inaugural sea trial, the defence ministry said Wednesday, a move likely ...

An audiotape message purportedly from Al-Qaeda`s leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has praised Muslims for the withdrawal of US ...

Russia and Georgia should launch direct talks on dispelling tensions, going beyond limited negotiations on Russian ...

Ukraine`s Environment Minister Mykola Zlochevsky vowed on Wednesday to free all bears kept in restaurants for ...

A blast occurred at a garden centre in Moscow on Thursday, possibly during welding work, state news agency RIA ...

An earthquake measuring 6.2 rocked southwestern Kyrgyzstan early Wednesday, with the epicenter close to the border ...

A weapons storage facility used by Libyan rebels was ablaze early Thursday, producing a thick plume of smoke and ...

An estimated 80 per cent of the world?s refugees now live in developing countries and yet anti-refugee sentiment is ...

At least 44 people were killed when a passenger plane broke up and caught fire on coming into land in heavy fog in ...

The head of Georgia`s rebel Abkhazia region, Sergei Bagapsh, died in a Moscow hospital Sunday, as analysts predicted ...