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At least 2,600 Americans in Egypt have asked US officials for help in evacuating the crisis-torn Arab nation, the ...

The new US ambassador to Damascus, Robert Ford, presented his credentials to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on ...

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and hailed pressure on Iran ...

There has been a worrisome increase in fighting between rebel and government forces in Sudan`s conflict-torn western ...

Not everyone in reclusive North Korea is finding life tough. Take the mud snail and eel farmers --they are doing a ...

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that the intervention by foreigners only makes issues in Lebanon and Tunisia ...

US President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Washington and Beijing wanted North Korea to halt "further ...

Sargent Shriver, the founder of the Peace Corps and a former vice presidential candidate, died Tuesday in suburban ...

A Palestinian teenager was killed and two other people were wounded on Tuesday as Israeli tanks carried out an ...

Pakistan on Sunday imposed a curfew over parts of Karachi after at least 17 people were killed in a fresh wave of ...

The Lebanese government on Wednesday collapsed after 11 ministers from the 30-seat cabinet declared resignation, as ...

A Thai nationalist activist and his aide appeared in a Cambodian court Wednesday to face spying charges in a border ...

Hamas was holding "urgent" talks with militant groups on Wednesday to pass on a warning from Arab leaders about firing ...

North Korea on Tuesday criticised South Korea`s rejection of its latest call for dialogue and insisted it is sincere ...

North Korea Monday officially proposed dialogue with South Korea, less than two months after launching a deadly ...