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SAN FRANCISCO, January 13, (THEWILL) – The 10 American sailors captured by Iran have been freed, U.S. and Iranian officials said. The sailors were captured Tuesday after their two naval boats entered Iranian waters near Farsi Island, in the Persian...

Sierra Leone's leader Ernest Bai Koroma is not seeking to stay in office after 2018 despite calls for him to do so, the government spokesman says. However, he hinted that the constitution could allow it if that is what "the...

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's spokesman declined to comment on Wednesday on rumors that the 91-year-old leader had suffered a heart attack, saying a response to the latest speculation about his health was "unnecessary". Spokesman George Charamba's response was to a...

Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on the Pakistani consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, stoking fears over the spread of the ultra-radical movement in Afghanistan. Afghan officials said all three attackers and at...

Pakistan has arrested the head of the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group on suspicion his outfit masterminded an attack this month on an air base in India, two officials said on Wednesday. Maulana Masood Azhar, an Islamist hardliner who was blamed for...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 12, (THEWILL) – A Thai woman, in the district of Phanom Sarakham in central Thailand's Chachoengsao Province, has married her dead lover on his burial day. The lady, Nan Thippharat, decided to go ahead with her wedding...

Footage of a North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test released by Pyongyang two days after it announced it had conducted the country's fourth nuclear test last week was faked, according to an analysis by a California-based think tank. In...

At least 10 people, most of them foreigners, have been killed in an explosion in a tourist area of Istanbul, Turkish officials say. Turkish officials say a Syrian national carried out a suicide bomb attack in the Sultanahmet district, near...

The South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is to seek an appeal against his conviction for murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius killed Ms Steenkamp in February 2013 after firing four times through a locked toilet door. A manslaughter verdict was overturned...

Egypt's parliament has opened for the first time in more than three years, packed with supporters of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The previous Islamist-dominated legislature was dissolved by a court ruling in 2012. The following year, the then General Sisi ousted...