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Cairo: US Vice President Mike Pence kicked off a trip to the Middle East on Saturday with a visit to Egypt, where he pledged firm US backing to President...

Istanbul: Turkey opened a new front in Syria's war on Saturday, launching airstrikes against a US-backed Kurdish militia in Afrin province that raise...

Washington: The second year of Donald Trump's presidency began on Saturday with the US government in shutdown mode while lawmakers gathered in hopes of...

Beirut: Syrian troops and allied forces seized an air base in Idlib province on Saturday, pressing their offensive into the country's largest insurgent...

Manila: Philippine troops clashed briefly with pro-IS militants in the volatile south on Saturday, the army said, in their first engagement since the...

Baghdad: Iraq's parliament failed on Saturday to approve May 12 as the election date, as suggested by the government, as minority sect and Kurdish...

Tripoli: The only functioning airport in the Libyan capital reopened on Saturday after a five-day closure caused by deadly clashes that left passenger jets...

New Delhi: India's environment ministry has put restrictions on the imports of petroleum coke in the capital Delhi and its surrounding region, in the...

Lima: On Friday Pope Francis suffered what millions of ordinary people have to deal with -- a flat tyre. While the pope was being driven into Lima from the...

Brasilia: One thing the designers of Brazil's modernistic capital Brasilia forgot to map out in their intricate plans was where to put the rubbish. The...