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Syrian pro-government forces captured a strategic southern rebel town close to the Jordanian border after weeks of fighting, a monitor…

EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini on Monday called for an "immediate ceasefire" in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated region where the Turkish…

Twitter is losing at least three top executives, in a major shakeup at the social network, reports said Sunday. Those departing…

Tens of thousands of people in the beauty pageant-crazed Philippines are set to give newly crowned Miss Universe Pia Alonzo…

Carefully steadying the gleaming red lantern between her knees, a worker applied the Chinese character for "wealth" in golden glitter…

Hong Kong has the least affordable housing of 87 major global cities, with prices a record 19 times average pre-tax…

Hit hard by falling oil prices, ex-Soviet Azerbaijan has plunged into an economic crisis that has seen rare protests shake…

While Germany is still taking in around 2,000 refugees a day, it is now denying entry to about 200 others…

Unidentified gunmen have killed a police officer and four others in Yemen's Aden in a wave of attacks targeting security…

Russia on Sunday confirmed it had shut for "security reasons" an Arctic border post with Norway to migrants being controversially…