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Paris: Three people were killed in southwestern France on Friday when a gunman held up a car, opened fire on police and then took hostages in a...

London: Global energy-related carbon emissions rose to a historic high of 32.5 gigatonnes last year, after three years of being flat, due to higher energy...

Washington: The U.S. Congress on Thursday was racing to approve a massive spending bill and send it to President Donald Trump for enactment before a...

Beirut: The Syrian government appeared close to ending rebel resistance in eastern Ghouta as civilians streamed from one of its besieged, bomb-battered...

Moscow: Britain accused Moscow on Wednesday of running an assassination programme to eliminate its enemies, while Russia said Britain may itself have...

Berlin: Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday charged her new government with healing divisions in German society that have fuelled the far-right, equipping...

New York: Millions of commuters along the US East Coast faced another round of heavy snow, ice and gusty winds on Wednesday as the fourth major snowstorm...

Kabul: A suicide bomber blew himself up near a shrine in Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens, as the Afghan capital...

Pristina: Kosovo's opposition on Wednesday held up ratification of a border agreement with Montenegro, which they regard as a sell-out, releasing...

Mosul (Iraq): For residents of the Old City, returning to Mosul is an exercise in trying to forget. Its streets bear the scars of the horrors they survived...