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Abu Dhabi/Hasaka (Syria): Syria's war has destroyed agricultural infrastructure and fractured the state system that provides farmers with seeds and buys...

Istanbul/Ankara: A call by Turkey's parliament speaker for a new constitution to drop references to secularism provoked opposition condemnation and a...

Beirut: Attacks by government forces and rebels killed at least 30 people, including eight children, in the last 24 hours in Aleppo, a city seeing some of...

Nairobi: Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has condemned the killing of a senior army officer who was shot along with his wife and bodyguard in an attack...

Athens: Two ferries left Greece for Turkey on Tuesday with 18 migrants on board and a government spokesman said Athens was doing all it could to process...

Iwakuni(Japan): The US military's MV-22 Osprey aircraft has been a lightning rod for opposition to US bases in Japan since 24 of them were deployed on...

Warrington (England): Police failures were to blame for the deaths of 96 Liverpool soccer fans in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium crush, a jury concluded on...

Manila: When the deadline for his ransom passed this week, Canadian John Ridsdel was beheaded by his captors, the Abu Sayyaf, whose network in the...

London/Geneva: Amid rising concern over a deadly outbreak of yellow fever spreading from Angola, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday urged...

New Delhi: India's Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed one of two Italian marines facing murder charges over the deaths of two Indian fishermen to further...