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US blacklists two from Pakistan-based militant group

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday it was blacklisting two officials of the Pakistan-based ...

US dismisses Iranian long-range naval reach

The United States Wednesday treated an Iranian claim that it would send ships close to US waters with derision, saying ...

Clinton says hopes Egypt emergency law lifted before June

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that she hoped that Egypt would lift its emergency law before ...

Clinton urges pressure on Israel, Palestinians for peace

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday urged Egypt as well as the diplomatic Quartet to pressure the ...

Chavez denounces `new colonialist wars` at UN

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was absent from the UN General Assembly but made his presence felt Tuesday through a ...

Clinton urges China to do more for N. Korea talks

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, meeting with her Chinese counterpart in New York, called Monday for Beijing ...

U.S. spy drone crashes in south Somalia

An unmanned U.S. spy drone has crashed in Somalia`s southern port city of Kismayu, a bastion of the al Qaeda-allied al ...

U.S. says won`t ignore Iran-backed attacks in Iraq

The United States will not "sit idly by" while its forces are harmed by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, the top U.S. ...

Iran`s Ahmadinejad attacks west, prompts walk-out

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flayed the West on Thursday for a catalogue of misdeeds, but his address to the ...

RI wants to see Palestine gain statehood through UN by fardah

The Indonesian government has expressed its support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas`s intention to secure ...

Obama speech shows bias towards Israel: Palestinians

Palestinians on Thursday slammed US President Barack Obama`s United Nations address a day earlier, calling it a ...

US hikers freed from Iran arrive in Oman: AFP

The plane carrying two US hikers, released from Iran after more than two years in jail on charges of spying and ...

Tourist sues Starbucks over "hidden camera"

Starbucks is being sued for $3 million by a tourist from Virginia who says his five-year-old daughter found a video ...

Moscow will "certainly" back Palestinian UN bid

Russia will "certainly" support the Palestinian`s bid to be recognised as a state by the United Nations, deputy ...

Two Koreas set to meet for nuclear talks next week

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