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Tunis: Tunisia will not cut public salaries and subsidies for food and petrol next year, a move which may avert protests but sets the country on a...

Vienna: Austria's president warned conservative election victor Sebastian Kurz that European values must underpin the next government and he would...

Tokyo/United Nations: The United States is not ruling out the eventual possibility of direct talks with North Korea, Deputy Secretary of State John J....

Chengdu (China): When she was a child, Qin Lijuan's grandfather was the local Communist Party boss in the district where they lived in southwestern...

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the Yasukuni Shrine for war dead, seen in China and the two Koreas as a symbol of...

Tokyo: Haruta Saito, a young Japanese amputee who dreams of becoming a Paralympian, remembers strapping on a prosthetic "running blade" for the...

Nairobi: Somalia is in desperate need for donated blood to treat survivors of a truck bombing in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday that killed more than 300...

Kabul: Taliban suicide car bombers and gunmen attacked a provincial Afghan police headquarters on Tuesday, killing at least 33 people, including the police...

Geneva: The U.N. refugee agency urged Bangladesh on Tuesday to speed up vetting of up to 15,000 Rohingya refugees "stranded" near the border after...