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A senior US diplomat will travel to Japan, South Korea, India and Singapore next week, the State Department said, as ...

International mediator Kofi Annan said Tuesday that the Syrian army had indicated it was pulling out of some areas but ...

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

ASEAN should forge a common position on a proposed code of conduct aimed at easing tensions in the South China Sea ...

Heavy fighting between gunmen in western Libya on Tuesday killed four people and left several more wounded, a local ...

South Sudan will not return to war with Khartoum despite a second day of airstrikes and bloody ground assaults in ...

UN chief Ban Ki-Moon appealed for calm after Sudan on Tuesday suspended an April summit between President Omar ...

Baghdad will host an Arab summit from March 27-29, the first time such a gathering has been held in Iraq in more than ...

US President Barack Obama visited the tense inter-Korean border Sunday, calling it "freedom`s frontier", as he weighs ...

Gun-toting soldiers patrol guard posts overlooking North Korean territory beyond a barbed-wire fence. Hundreds of red ...

Four special force police officers were killed in a clash with Kurdish militants in a mountainous area of southeast ...

Tensions between Indonesia and Malaysia are frequently the result of mass media reports that cater to the interests ...

Taliban militants killed a Pakistani soldier and wounded two others in the latest cross-border attack in the country`s ...

Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad held talks Sunday with Israel`s Defense Minister Ehud Barak as the two sides ...

Top nuclear envoys from North and South Korea will hold bilateral talks on Wednesday in Beijing, aimed at discouraging ...