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MOSCOW: Russian opposition figure and anti-graft campaigner Alexei Navalny announced on Tuesday he plans to run for president in 2018, causing a potential...

Cairo: A suicide bomber who killed at least 25 people in Cairo's main cathedral on Sunday was a Muslim Brotherhood supporter who joined a militant cell...

ALEPPO, Syria/GENEVA: The United Nations said on Tuesday it had reports that Syrian soldiers and allied Iraqi fighters had summarily shot dead 82 children,...

Baghdad: Iraqi paramilitary forces fighting IS west of Mosul aim to clear a large strip of land on the border with Syria to prevent the militants melting...

ANKARA: Turkey has detained 568 people over alleged links to Kurdish militants in raids over the last two days, the interior ministry said on Tuesday,...

CATANIA (Sicily): A Tunisian man accused of being the captain of a migrant boat that sank killing almost 700 people was found guilty of multiple...

Beirut/Vienna: Iran ordered its scientists on Tuesday to start developing systems for nuclear-powered marine vessels in response to what it calls a US...

Beirut: European planemaker Airbus and IranAir will finalise a deal to buy aircraft in two weeks, the head of Iran's flag carrier said on Tuesday,...

TOKYO: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Western sanctions imposed after Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea are an obstacle to talks on...

BERLIN: The leaders of France and Germany, speaking two days before an EU summit which will discuss the conflict in eastern Ukraine, said they want to...