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KABUL (AFP) ― Afghan election authorities on Monday strongly denied top officials were guilty of fraud after front-running presidential candidate Abdullah …

BANGKOK (AFP) ― Thailand and Cambodia agreed Tuesday to quash “rumors” of a crackdown against illegal migrant workers by the new Thai junta after the …

JERUSALEM (AFP) ― Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s help Monday in securing the release of three …

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ― Two police officers who allegedly fired live rounds during an anti-World Cup protest in Rio de Janeiro are under investigation and on …

The U.S. is urgently deploying several hundred armed troops in and around Iraq and considering sending an additional contingent of special forces soldiers as …

North Korea should return all the Japanese people abducted by the communist country first before Japan’s prime minister could visit Pyongyang for a …

BAGHDAD (AFP) ― Western embassies began evacuating staff from Baghdad Monday despite Iraq’s claim it was repelling militants who have captured vast amounts …

BAGHDAD (AP) ― Emboldened by a call to arms by the top Shiite cleric, Iranian-backed militias have moved quickly to the center of Iraq’s political …

VIENNA (AFP) ― Iran and world powers’ high-stakes nuclear talks enter a critical fifth round in Vienna on Monday, with both sides still far apart on …

CAIRO (AP) ― Working in secret, European diplomats drew up the borders that have defined the Middle East’s nations for nearly a century ― but now civil …