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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has rejected criticism of his government's release of 65 detainees ...
The US government's envoy in India ended a nine-year diplomatic standoff by meeting with Narendra ...
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Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta has announced his resignation after the leadership of his ...
A thick layer of ice covered much of the Deep South on Thursday and most of the cities of the South ...
Belgium became the first country to allow euthanasia for terminally ill children of any age when ...
The exodus of tens of thousands of Muslims from Central African Republic amounts to "ethnic ...
Warning that "failure" was staring him in the face, the Syria peace talks mediator said on Thursday ...
An employee of the NSA has admitted to letting former contractor Edward Snowden use his password.
The Afghan government has begun releasing prisoners despite the objections of the US military, ...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro banned street demonstrations after at least three people died ...
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An Australian truck driver has fronted an Indonesian court wearing a black head scarf as she faces ...
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The reports of the death of China's favourite rabbit, if not greatly exaggerated, appear to at ...
Britain will warn Scotland it can't keep the pound if it votes for independence, its boldest ...
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While women and children evacuated from Homs have been allowed to leave freely, any male aged ...
US scientists have announced an important milestone in the costly, decades-old quest to develop ...
The Danish Jyllands Park Zoo said it might put down one of its giraffes, which by coincidence is ...
The former mayor of New Orleans - once the public face of a city battered by Hurricane Katrina - ...
The move stirs fears of new pressure on Western diplomats who seek to contact the Islamist ...
The Algerian soldier who was the sole survivor of the crash of a military jet that killed 76 joins ...
Syrian opposition calls for a transitional governing body to oversee a UN-monitored ceasefire.
A strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake has struck China's far western region of Xinjiang.
Rape and sexual assault have long been a terrible burden of daily life for women in India. But ...
25 minutes ago Despite the criticism levelled at it for encouraging rhino and elephant poaching, China has made ...
56 minutes ago US Secretary of State John Kerry rebuffed North Korea's demand that the United States and South ...
21 minutes ago An employee of the NSA has admitted to letting former contractor Edward Snowden use his password.
Fourteen inmates, mostly from al-Qaeda, managed to escape from the central prison in Yemen’s ...
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China's troubled Jade Rabbit lunar rover, which experienced mechanical difficulties last month, has ...
Storm leaves hundreds of thousands of residents without power as trees fall under the weight of ...
Police Chief Mike Horihan cancelled his time off and got dressed for a cold, grim day of searching ...
The Danish Jyllands Park Zoo said it might put down one of its giraffes, which by coincidence is ...
A man once dubbed "Japan's Beethoven", who now admits someone else wrote his music and whose ghost ...
Belgian MPs are due to press ahead with a child euthanasia law that critics say "challenges the ...