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A safety test revealed the Ikea shelters do not live up to Swiss fire protection requirements. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Stockholm: The Ikea Foundation...

JAKARTA: A ship carrying more than 100 passengers was adrift in rough seas off the coast of Indonesia's Sulawesi on Saturday, officials said,...

Patricio Aylwin   Santiago: Former Chilean president Patricio Aylwin was hospitalized in Santiago after suffering a cranial injury in a fall at home, according...

Tarcisio Bertone   Rome: An Italian cardinal accused of using charity money to refurbish his luxury apartment has donated 150,000 euros ($163,000) to the...

  Aden: At least 68 people were killed Saturday in fighting between troops and Shiite rebels in northern Yemen, military and tribal sources said,...

Mahamadou Issoufou   NIAMEY: Niger’s government has arrested nine military officers for planning a coup, the interior minister said on Saturday, doubling the number...

  PARIS: French President Francois Hollande’s approval rating dropped by 3 points to 30 percent in December, chipping away some of his eight-point gain...

A Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) flag hangs on a barricade in the Sur district of Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey on November 18, 2015 (AFP...

  Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday hailed the country's secret services for foiling around 30 planned attacks and uncovering more than 320 foreign...

      By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” hauled in an estimated $250 million at global movie box offices through Friday...

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Manama: Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, met today with US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter, currently...

  Baghdad: Iraq's Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi met here today with the Speaker of the Arab Parliament Ahmed Al Jarwan, who is now...

  LONDON: British peer Greville Janner, a prominent campaigner for Holocaust victims who was later accused of child sex abuse, has died aged 87,...

  By John Miller   ZURICH, Dec 19 (Reuters) - The Swiss attorney general has opened a criminal investigation of a leading member in a...

President Serzh Sarksyan of Armenia and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan meet for talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at the invitation of Swiss...

File photo Beirut: A UN-backed roadmap to end the Syrian war was met with scepticism Saturday by members of the country's fractured opposition...

Tashfeen Malik Washington: A member of the US Congress Saturday accused immigration officials of allowing California attacker Tashfeen Malik into the country despite...

  WARSAW, Poland: Thousands of people took part in demonstrations across Poland on Saturday to protest moves by the new right-wing government to neutralize...