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Istanbul: A heavy snowstorm paralysed life in Istanbul on Saturday, with hundreds of flights cancelled and the Bosphorus closed to shipping traffic. The...

PARIS: A French court sentenced Friday four members of the PKK terrorist organization to two months in prison. The convicts aged between 25...

WASHINGTON: A joint session of Congress on Friday certified Electoral College returns, cementing Donald Trump as the country’s president-elect. The proceedings were largely...

DAKAR: Gambia’s embattled President Yahya Jammeh has fired the country’s Ambassador to Senegal after the Ambassador urged him to accept defeat and hand...

BANJUL, Gambia: Mamma Kandeh, a defeated Gambian opposition leader who went to polls with President elect Adama Barrow and President Yahya Jammeh has...

ISLAMABAD: At least 13 coalminers were killed and four others wounded in a Islamic State terrorist attack on Friday in Baghlan province of...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.: Federal investigators will on Saturday pursue all angles in determining the motives behind a mass shooting in which an attacker...

Beirut: At least nine people, among them seven government soldiers, were killed in fighting near the Syrian capital Damascus overnight, despite a fragile...

KABUL: Unidentified gunmen killed eight members of Afghanistan's Hazara minority who were working as miners in the northern province of Baghlan, a local...

New York: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has reportedly voiced a strong desire to reform the Security Council. Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama...

Syrian rebels backed by Turkish tanks are advancing under intense bombardment towards a major northern town in Syria held by Kurdish-led forces. Fighting...

An international inquiry has blamed Syrian government forces for a third chemical weapons attack, according to a confidential report to the United Nations...

ISTANBUL (AA) - An Istanbul court remanded 10 suspects late on Friday in connection with last month's deadly terror attacks in the city's...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.: An Iraq war veteran took a gun out of his checked luggage and opened fire in a crowded baggage claim...

Accra: Nana Akufo-Addo is to be sworn in as Ghana's new president on Saturday after beating incumbent leader John Dramani Mahama in elections...

Washington: Donald Trump asserted Friday that hacking by foreign powers did not sway the US election, after being briefed on an intelligence report...

 U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will take aggressive action against cyber hacking in the early days of his government, Vice President-elect Mike Pence told ...

LAGOS: A Nigerian militant group, which has claimed attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta, said in a statement on Friday that...