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'Baghdad International Airport today welcomed the first Saudi plane after a 27-year break,' said a ministry...

Women account for 13 percent of police officers in Greece

A communist politican branded it 'abominable filth'

Says won't waste time on Trump's "rants and whoppers"

India accounts for a third of the global total of more than 700 million women married as children

The San Francisco-based social media giants' rules and regulations will come into force in the coming weeks

Bombing campaigns in 1990s make NATO membership unpopular among Bosnian Serbs

He confessed to murdering and raping five girls and women in the Houston area

All eyes on Puigdemont amid crisis which has rattled Catalonia's economy

This is his first response to Trump's bellicose speech against Iran last week

Kurdish groups working hard to give Arabs role in Raqqa but city falls outside Kurdish-dominated regions of north

Gulf emirate is home to the Al-Udeid air base which is home to some 11,000 US soldiers

Crackdown comes hours after the Israeli govt declares it would not deal with an emerging Palestinian unity government

Al-Thani: Gulf crisis detrimental to all parties

US President Donald Trump has eased restrictions on arms sales to Bahrain,

Supporters of Shinawatras say legal action is latest move by authorities to squeeze Shinawatra family out of politics

There were about 250 names, mostly foreigners, in her phonebook who were suspected of being Islamic State sympathisers

At least 41 dead due to wildfires in Portugal

This provision of the constitution would open the way for Madrid to impose direct rule over the semi-autonomous region

PM May has promised to maintain Britain's contributions for two years after Brexit in March 2019

Antonio Guterres wants 900 extra peacekeepers in Central African Republic

The measures follow a temporary ban on the sale of firecrackers by the Supreme Court to ease the pollution levels

US judge freezes entry ban for six Muslim majority countries, allows implementation for North Korea and Venezuela

91-year-old former Chinese president took prominent place at ruling Communist Party's leadership Congress

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Local media reported that the shooting was gang-related

Xi toutes his nationalistic 'China dream' slogan at Communist Party congress

Cash is king in Japan and credit cards are much less popular than in other countries

The number of migrants trying to make the trip, has jumped in the last month while fewer are leaving from Libya

Ties between Taiwan and China have turned frosty since the election of Tsai Ing-wen as president last year

Historians say up to 500,000 alleged Indonesian Communist Party [PKI] supporters were killed

The areas were evacuated by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters before the arrival of the Iraqi forces

Images of police beating would-be voters and demonstrations that followed the vote dampened visitors' enthusiasm

Nesting boxes with light-sensitive doors that open at sunrise and close at sunset have been designed for the parrots

Nobody was injured in the explosion

The animal was spotted roaming the streets and enjoying the park facilities

Former Secretary of State criticizes current approach; highlights dearth of Asia experts in State Department

Cult of personality develops around most powerful Chinese leader in decades

Tensions over North Korea's weapons programme have soared in recent months

Decision comes after rival Palestinian movements Fatah, Hamas sign landmark unity deal to end decade-long split

Turkey hit in by succession of attacks in 2016 leaving hundreds dead

Kensington Palace announced Kate's pregnancy last month

Casinos will also install metal detectors at all entrances and place a ban on luggage on the casino floors

Forbes attributes Trump's decline to weakening New York retail and office real estate market

The man inside the suitcase received an eight-month prison sentence on Monday

More than 360 million Indians -- nearly one-third of its 1.25 billion people -- live below the poverty line

Zuma is backing his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to succeed him

The helicopter, which was conducting a night time search-and-rescue drill, was likely to have crashed

Government has blamed clandestine dealers running the black market for the shortages of cash and basic commodities

On Monday an 18-year-old man, whose mother insisted was not taking part in the protests, was shot dead in Kisumu