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Baghdad: Gunmen in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk were on Wednesday besieging several polling stations containing election staff, four days after a...

Washington/Seoul: The United States is still hopeful that an unprecedented summit with North Korea will take place, in spite of a threat by Pyongyang to...

Berlin: Germany's Angela Merkel on Wednesday defended the Iran nuclear deal following its rejection by Washington, arguing the pact is the best way to...

Cairo: Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has pardoned more than 330 people, many of them youths jailed for demonstrating in recent years. Sisi told...

Kinshasa: The first batch of 4,000 experimental Ebola vaccines to combat an outbreak suspected to have killed 20 people arrived in Congo's capital...

Rome: Italy's two anti-system parties on Wednesday appeared on the verge of clinching a deal to form a coalition government after 2-1/2 months of...

Gaza/Occupied Jerusalem: Palestinian protests on the Gaza-Israel border have dropped off over the past two days, with Israel on Wednesday pointing to what...

Paris: With hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers packed in tents alongside a Paris canal and under a nearby bridge, charities are warning of the risk...

New York: Powerful storms carrying high winds, torrential rain and hail slammed heavily populated parts of the US Northeast on Tuesday, knocking over trees...

Beirut: The remaining fighters started to withdraw from the last rebel-held enclave in central Syria on Wednesday, state television reported, sealing the...