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Berlin: Chancellor Angela Merkel faced criticism from within the ranks of her own conservatives on Thursday for making concessions to her centre-left Social...

Kuala Lumpur: Governments overseeing Asia's rapidly-expanding cities must give young people greater opportunities in order to avoid unrest like the Arab...

Male/Colombo: The exiled former president of the Maldives accused authorities on Wednesday of mistreating a supreme court judge thrown into prison following...

Nairobi: Kenyan authorities deported a lawyer charged with treason for attending the symbolic presidential inauguration of opposition leader Raila Odinga,...

Beirut/Jerusalem: Lebanon vowed on Wednesday to prevent any territorial intrusion by a border wall which Israel is building, and Israel said it wanted...

Hualien: Rescuers combed the rubble of collapsed buildings on Wednesday, in a search for about 60 people missing after a strong earthquake killed at least...

Peshawar: A Pakistani court on Wednesday convicted 31 people over the campus lynching of a university student who was falsely accused of blasphemy, and...

Johannesburg: African National Congress (ANC) leader Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday he is holding direct talks with Jacob Zuma over a transition of...

Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday agreed to a coalition deal, taking Europe's...

Tokyo: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday that Washington would soon announce new, tough sanctions to persuade North Korea to abandon its...