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Islamabad: Pakistan has arrested 97 Al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants, including three commanders, in the southern city of Karachi and foiled a...

Munich: Major powers agreed on Friday to a cessation of hostilities in Syria set to begin in a week and to provide rapid humanitarian access to besieged...

Helsinki: Thousands of Iraqi refugees who arrived in Finland last year have decided to cancel their asylum applications and to return home voluntarily,...

Baghdad: Three members of Iraq's presidential guard were kidnapped on Friday near a checkpoint run by militiamen close to the northern district of Tuz...

Dubai: A new smartphone application that helps Iranians dodge the country's "police" is proving popular with the young tech-savvy...

Brussels: US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said on Friday he expected both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to send special operations forces...

London: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and former supermodel Jerry Hall will hold a marriage service next month at St Bride's church on London's Fleet...

Bamako: Suspected militants attacked a UN base in the northern Mali town of Kidal with mortars and machine guns on Friday, killing three peacekeepers and...

Burns: Law enforcement officials were preparing on Friday to sweep a wildlife refuge in Oregon for explosives and evidence a day after the last holdouts in...

Athens: Greek riot police fired tear gas at farmers protesting against pension reform plans on Friday who hurled stones at the agriculture ministry in...