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Istanbul/Ankara: French diplomatic missions in Turkey's two main cities have shut until further notice and cancelled planned events to mark France's...

Taipei: Taiwan investigators suspect two Russian nationals hacked into a major domestic bank’s ATMs last weekend, using malware to withdraw more than $2...

Beijing/Manila: China vowed to take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty over the South China Sea and said it had the right to set up an air...

Athens: Four people drowned and six were rescued when a small boat laden with migrants overturned on Wednesday off the Greek island of Lesbos, the...

Kathmandu: Nepal's former Maoist rebels joined forces with the largest opposition party on Wednesday to lodge a motion of no-confidence in the prime...

Berlin: Germany will recall soldiers serving at the Incirlik airbase in Turkey if Ankara continues blocking German lawmakers from visiting the troops, Vice...

Brussels: The European Commission proposed more unified EU asylum rules on Wednesday, in a bid to stop people waiting for refugee status moving around the...

Moscow: A former editor of a Russian media group described how he and colleagues were pushed out over reporting that angered officials, in the first public...

Bujumbura: A Burundian member of the East African Legislative Assembly was shot dead on Wednesday in what Rwanda's foreign minister called an...

Rome: Italian mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, one of the most notorious crime figures of his time, has died in a Milan hospital at the age of 83, prison...