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Occupied Ramallah: Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian 17-year-old in the occupied West Bank on Friday, hospital officials said, and the Israeli...

Lily Gold Mine (South Africa): Almost 90 miners were rescued and three other workers were missing after a cave-in at a gold mine in the northeast of South...

Beirut: Tens of thousands of Syrians fled an intensifying Russian assault around Aleppo on Friday, and aid workers said they feared the city which once held...

Rio De Janeiro: Zika has been identified in the saliva and urine of two patients infected by the virus, a leading Brazilian health institute said on Friday,...

London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on Britain and Sweden on Friday to let him freely leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London after a UN panel...

Bamako: Malian troops backed by UN helicopters stormed a UN police base in the city of Timbuktu and recaptured it from suspected militants who had seized it...

Mardin (Turkey): Turkey all but ruled out direct talks with Kurdish militants to end one of the worst periods of bloodshed in a three-decade insurgency on...

London: A sixth sperm whale has died on a British beach, the latest of nearly 30 to have become stranded in shallow waters on the coastline of Europe's...

Los Angeles: A skinny sea lion pup with a taste for the finer things in life turned up on Thursday inside a fancy San Diego restaurant, where it settled...

Harare: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has declared a state of disaster in most rural parts of the country severely hit by a drought, with 26 per cent...