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Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian near the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank on Wednesday, medical and security sources said. Mohammed Alawneh, 22, was killed in clashes that followed…

A heat wave in Japan claimed the lives of 14 people last week, the country’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Wednesday. It said 6,165 people requested medical assistance due to …

Three Spanish freelance journalists have gone missing in Syria where they were reporting from the northwestern Aleppo region, while worries are growing about the whereabouts of a freelance…

Dozens of people have disappeared after being detained by Egypt’s security forces, the Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

In a statement, the New York-based body urged Egyptian…

Two Turkish police were found dead on Wednesday in the southeastern town of Ceylanpinar close to the Syrian border, two days after a deadly suicide bombing in the same region, the local governor…

At least 40 people have been killed in a week of ethnic clashes in southern Libya between rival gunmen from the Toubou and Tuareg minorities, a local official said on Wednesday.

The latest…

US Secretary of State John Kerry will seek to ease tensions on Iran’s nuclear program in a meeting with the Persian Gulf Arab officials in Qatar in the near future, the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Sharq…

French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday he would unveil an emergency package of measures to help France’s livestock and dairy sector on Wednesday.

The deadly bomb attack in southern Turkey that killed at least 31 people on Monday was condemned around the world.

The suspected suicide attack in Suruc, a town in Sanliurfa Province close…

At a diplomatic ceremony on July 20, the flag of the Republic of Cuba was hoisted over the newly reconstituted Cuban Embassy in the United States capital.

The reopening of…

European Union interior ministers agreed on Monday to relocate more than 32,000 refugees in Greece and Italy to states across the 28-member bloc. But the fate of 8,000 migrants remained uncertain…

Burundi voted in its disputed presidential election on Tuesday with low turnouts in the capital following a night of explosions and gunfire in opposition strongholds where residents oppose…

The Syrian government considers actions of the US-led coalition in Syria and Iraq to have nothing to do with the fight against terrorism, Syrian Prime Minister Wael Nader Halqi said.

A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State militant group killed four people near a Shia mosque in the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital Sana’a, the group said.

Children were among eight…

Brazilian police in the city of Manaus launched an investigation following the murder of 35 people who were reportedly killed over the weekend. There are speculations the fatalities were the…

Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Israel of "abusive arrests" of Palestinian children as young as 11 and of using threats to force them to sign confessions.

Pearson Plc is exploring a sale of the Financial Times after receiving interest from potential buyers, a report said.

Cuba and the US ushered in a new era of post-Cold War relations on Monday, formally restoring diplomatic ties severed more than five decades ago and reestablishing embassies in each other’s…

The United Nations continues to come under heavy fire for singling out mostly non-western states for human rights violations while ignoring the misdeeds of western nations or big powers.

A NATO airstrike hit two Afghan military checkpoints on Monday in a restive province east of the capital Kabul, killing seven Afghan troops in what an Afghan official describes as an…

Online cheating network Ashley Madison has reportedly been hacked, compromising the user databases, financial records and private details of the service’s owners and 37 million users.

Avid…

Some 8,000 people with HIV in war-torn eastern Ukraine face a critical shortage of medicine and their supply will run out in mid-August unless a blockade is lifted, a UN AIDS envoy warned.

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An explosion killed at least 27 people and wounded many more in the Turkish town of Suruc near the Syrian border, the interior ministry said.

The blast occurred in the garden of a cultural…

Libyan warplanes on Sunday sank one ship and attacked a second vessel near the eastern city of Benghazi, military spokesmen for the country’s UN-backed government said on Monday.

There was…

The Indian Air Force has proposed to acquire 48 additional military transport helicopters from Russia for $1.1 billion, local media reported on Monday. India reportedly wants to replace…