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HONG KONG (AFP) ― Hong Kong police have arrested at least 22 people during a series of protests targeting a senior Chinese official visiting the city, …

MASERU (AFP) ― Lesotho’s exiled prime minister is heading home, an aide said Monday, as regional mediators sought to reinstall him to power days after an …

ISTANBUL (AFP) ― Turkey on Monday said it had summoned the U.S. charge d’affaires in Ankara to demand an explanation over a leak by Edward Snowden that …

GENEVA (AFP) — The UN Human Rights Council on Monday debated whether to send an emergency mission to Iraq to investigate suspected “crimes against …

MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia launched construction Monday of a 770 billion ruble ($20.8 bn) gas pipeline that will help bring gas from the far east of the …

TOKYO (AFP) — Conservative soulmates Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe declared Monday ties between India and Japan were moving to a “new level”, …

MOSCOW (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the EU on Monday to show “common sense” and not to engage in mutually destructive …

MOSCOW (AFP) — Up to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been sent to Ukraine over the past two months, and at least several hundred have apparently died in …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has yet to campaign alongside a Democrat at risk of losing in the midterm congressional elections, and the …

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s Communist leaders have pulled out their usual playbook to suppress resistance to their plans to tightly limit the first …