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Heavy rain and localized flooding have forced the closure of the Pacific Highway at the town of Grafton in northern ...

The Sudanese military has freed 14 Chinese workers "kidnapped" by rebels in the country`s South Kordofan state, the ...

Dozens of anti-government protestors stormed the Syrian embassy in Cairo on Friday amid concerns of the Arab League ...

The UN Security Council on Friday met behind closed doors to discuss a Western-Arab draft resolution on Syria with the ...

Scientists at the San Francisco-based Gladstone Institutes, an independent and nonprofit biomedical-research ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently commended Myanmar's economic reform efforts, saying that the nation ...

Iran`s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Wednesday that U.S. President Barack Obama `s threat to use ...

About 60 people are believed to have been killed in a massive landslide in the Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea ...

Azerbaijan condemned on Tuesday the adoption by France`s Senate of a bill making it a crime to deny the Armenian ...

Ten new political parties have been allowed to hold their constituent congress ahead of being recognized, Algeria`s ...

Syria`s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Damascus accepted the Arab League`s (AL) request of extending the Arab ...

French Senate on Monday passed a bill criminalizing the denial of the controversial Armenian "genocide," which has ...

Turkey on Monday dismissed as unjust and disrespectful the French Senate`s adoption of a bill criminalizing those who ...

For the first time, the Philippines celebrate the Chinese New Year as a non-working holiday throughout the country. ...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has reiterated the commitment of the Federal Government toward tackling terrorism ...