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Mosul (Iraq): Iraqi government forces killed the IS commander of Mosul's Old City on Tuesday as the battle for the militants' last stronghold in...

Addis Ababa: Police stopped people on Tuesday from entering the site of a landslide at an Ethiopian rubbish dump after bereaved families tussled with rescue...

Berlin: Germany plans a new law calling for social networks like Facebook to remove slanderous or threatening online postings quickly or face fines of up to...

Panaji: Manohar Parrikar, who quit as defence minister, on Tuesday took oath as the chief minister of Goa to head a coalition government, three days after...

Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was already on her way to the airport on Monday to fly to Washington for her first meeting with U.S....

Ankara/Istanbul: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday a diplomatic row with the Netherlands could not be dismissed with an apology and warned of...

Amman: A prominent Iraqi politician on Monday warned Washington the acceleration in a military campaign in western Mosul to drive out IS militants was...

Benghazi: East Libyan forces said they had regained control on Tuesday of the major oil ports of Ras Lanuf and Es Sider from a rival faction that seized...

Moscow/Astana: Russian-led peace talks on Syria were derailed on Tuesday as rebels backed by Turkey boycotted a third round of meetings in Kazakhstan and...

Amsterdam: The Dutch election has centred on the fight between the two hard right candidates, Geert Wilders and Prime Minister Mark Rutte, but the leader of...