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JERUSALEM The United States said Israeli and Palestinian leaders moved on Wednesday toward resolving their row over settlements but the... Read More →

SYDNEY Julia Gillard pulled off the “greatest escape” since Houdini by clinging on to power as Australian prime minister, but... Read More →

WASHINGTON An evangelical Florida church has vowed to press ahead with plans to burn the Koran to mark the anniversary... Read More →

HYDERABAD Pakistan ordered nearly half a million people to evacuate towns on Thursday as rising floods threaten further havoc in... Read More →

JAKARTA Islamist extremists were hunting the editor of the defunct Indonesian edition of Playboy magazine on Thursday as police awaited... Read More →

WASHINGTON US combat troops pulling out of Iraq can claim the ouster of a brutal dictator as a clear success... Read More →

Twenty years after Lenin’s statue began to tumble across post-Communist Eastern Europe, the southern French city of Montpellier has erected... Read More →

KABUL Afghanistan marked its independence day on Thursday as the long war in the country drags on, with foreign military... Read More →

MOSCOW Looking out over his sunflower fields in Russia’s famed black earth country, Alexander Kniazev despaired over the damage done... Read More →

SINGAPORE More Asian families are struggling under the pressure of simultaneously supporting their children and ageing parents, a study released... Read More →