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With no opposition parties, polling has not inspired the enthusiasm witnessed for Egypt's elections in 2011

The Church of England bishops called on Cameron to accept 50,000 refugees, in a letter initially sent in September

Islamic Defenders Front demands closure of ten churches as they do not have proper permits

Police teams questioned more than 250 suspects before arresting the juveniles over the attack on the two-year-old

The piercing is carried out by temple volunteers, who push the thick metal objects through participants' cheeks

The suspects were preparing to travel to Iraq and Syria to join Islamic State

The Vatican cricket team clinched a narrow win in the final minutes

A "very concerned" US President Barack Obama to call for calm

According to a recent Census Bureau report, working American women took home 21 percent less than men in 2014

The allies are looking to agree on a 10-year aid package to extend the US grants to Israel of $3 billion annually

Meghwal hopes to win an annulment despite the fact her husband, with whom she has never lived, staunchly opposes one

At the heart of the problem, insiders say, is the unstable power-sharing deal between Ghani and Abdullah

Revelations focus on a memo allegedly written by Colin Powell to then US president George Bush

Critics want Najib to explain massive sums allegedly missing from state-owned development company which he launched

Maoist parliamentarian unanimously elected as the House speaker after her only competitor withdraws her candidacy

US Secretary of State cited that mass migration would significantly worsen if global warming persists

Thousands of refugees, from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, make daily attempts to cross the Aegean Sea fromTurkey

Another 11 people were rescued and crews were searching for a missing child

Dmitry Medvedev claims Russian force has successfully hit 456 IS targets in Syria since September 30

Pope Francis will meet slum dwellers and refugees and call for dialogue between Christians and Muslims

In an email to Muslim community members, Staff-Sergeant David Zackrias urged the reporting of all forms of abuse

Mourners vowed to continue commemorations of Ashura even after a gunman killed five people at one of their gatherings

Iran insists it has no plans to develop atomic weapons

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal expressed anguish over the rapes Saturday, terming them "shameful and worrying"

Harrowing testimonies emerge of death squads targeting female rights workers and journalists hours after city fell

Locals and emergency workers reached the spot to evacuate the trapped passengers and were moved to nearby hospitals

Detectives are questioning a woman from Willesden Green on suspicion of racially-aggravated public disorder

"Blame him, or don't blame him, but he was president. The World Trade Center came down during his reign"

The unrest has claimed the lives of 39 Palestinians, including knife-wielding assailants, children and protesters

Many Muslim residents of Thandwe and surrounding villages who came to see Suu Kyi said they still supported her

The younger child was abducted late Friday by two men from a religious event in Delhi's Nangloi area

First arrested in Zambia in 2005, Aswat was extradited last year to the United States where he pleaded guilty in March

The assailants opened fire on the Shia place of worship from a car carrying no licence plates

Twin suicide bombing at a mosque on the outskirts of the capital Maiduguri killed around 29 people late on Thursday

A gunman began firing at a Shia gathering in eastern Saudi Arabia, injuring nine others

Mob bludgeons 22-year-old to death on rumours he was smuggling cattle

Police arrive and a gun battle breaks out, which the resident said injured several people and left the attacker dead

Operations will be carried out as part of recently announced deployment of military personnel to neighboring Cameroon

Statement comes in wake of Obama's announcement to delay withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan

The fighting has stepped up since Russia late last month began an aerial campaign in the country

Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bomb attack and shooting spree, has been kept in solitary confinement since 2011

Modi's decision this week to declassify all files on India's most enigmatic nationalist hero may end the controversy

Putin and the leaders of ex-Soviet states agreed to create a joint task force to defend the region's borders

Origin of drone unknown; Turkish officials say it was an "unmanned aircraft"

Comments by CM of the northern state of Haryana come after a Hindu mob lynched a Muslim man over rumours he ate beef

The arrests come as political tensions rise in the former junta-ruled nation ahead of parliamentary elections

Unverified photos online of the attacker showed him wearing a shirt with the word "press" stamped on it

WHO has warned against prematurely assuming the outbreak is over because the virus could pop up again in 42 days

Cameron seeks to defuse fellow EU leaders' frustration by promising to send them his wish-list in early November

Cab drivers have staged high-profile protests in London, arguing that Uber bypasses local licensing laws