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  China has dispatched two patrol ships to "assert its sovereignty" over islands at the centre of a row with…

  Western powers which have overseen Kosovo since its 2008 unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia have ended their supervision…

SANAA — Yemeni troops killed the second in command of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, regarded by Washington as the…

Radhia Nasraoui, head of the Tunisian Association Against Torture, denounced on Monday the death of a man who died in…

An Iraqi judge on Sunday sentenced fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi to death by hanging for the murder of a…

KABUL — Afghanistan said Wednesday it had arrested or sacked hundreds of Afghan soldiers over attacks on NATO troops, trying…

US Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides will accompany a major American business delegation visiting Egypt on Saturday, officials said,…

Algeria's new Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal took office Tuesday promising to push ahead with reforms four months after parliamentary elections,…

Farouk Hosni, the former minister of culture who served under the Mubarak regime for 20 years, was referred to the…

  A Bahrain court on Tuesday upheld jail terms against 13 leading opposition figures, including seven facing life in prison, over charges…