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Madrid: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called for a "unified" global response to prevent terrorism that puts respect for human rights at...

Washington: US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Wednesday that this week's international talks on the war in Syria will not find an...

  BRASILIA: Opposition activists handcuffed themselves to a pillar in Brazil's Congress on Wednesday seeking the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff for mismanaging a...

  By Chris Arsenault TORONTO: Managing migration to the world's growing cities is the biggest challenge of the 21st century, with three million people...

Riyadh: Saudi Deputy Crown Prince, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense met here today with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond. During the...

Rabat: Thousands of Moroccan medical students took to the streets of Rabat Wednesday to protest a bill that would institute mandatory two-year civil...

Representational image United Nations, United States: More than 50,000 North Koreans have been sent to work abroad, mainly in Russia and China, in...

Brussels: European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann warned Wednesday that fences were not welcome in the EU, after Vienna...

President of Burundi's National Assembly, Pascal Nyabenda, also president of the ruling party CNDD-FDD, delivers a speech in Bujumbura on July 30, 2015...

Washington: US House Republicans on Wednesday elected Paul Ryan, a youthful, popular and wonkish conservative, as their candidate for speaker of the House...

Berlin: Germany will send thousands of rejected asylum applicants back to the Balkans in the coming months, the interior minister said Wednesday, as...

Prague: Thousands of people protested against migrants in towns around the Czech Republic on Wednesday, a week after the UN slammed the country's...

Gaborone, Botswana:Botswana has granted asylum to 10 Eritrean footballers who sought refuge in the country after playing in a qualifying match for the...

Bogota:Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos offered Wednesday to enter into a bilateral ceasefire with FARC guerrillas from January 1, which would mark a...

Washington: Global online freedom declined for a fifth consecutive year as governments around the world stepped up surveillance and censorship efforts, a study...

  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK: A Pakistani man convicted in March in a U.S. court of conspiring with al Qaeda to bomb a...

    Moscow: Russian warplanes have struck 118 "terrorist" targets in Syria over the past 24 hours in a new record, the defence ministry said...

first lieutenant and spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of Libya, speaks during a press conference in the capital Tripoli on October 27,...