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Germany wants to reach a deal to keep Britain in the European Union but cannot compromise the 28-member bloc's core principles, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday ahead of an EU summit. "On the one hand, we want to reach...

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter was on Wednesday hoping to discuss with Iraqi officials Washington's offer of attack helicopters and advisers to help retake the city of Ramadi as part of an intensified fight against Islamic State. Carter said he...

A new Saudi-led Islamic alliance to fight terrorism will share information and train, equip and provide forces if necessary for the fight against Islamic State militants, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia announced earlier on Tuesday...

A South African king is set to go to jail after the country's highest court threw out his bid to overturn a 12-year prison sentence. King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo was convicted of kidnapping, assault and arson. He has been ordered to report...

A ruling party MP in Zimbabwe has been charged with making "insulting" remarks about the first lady Grace Mugabe. Justice Wadyajena was accused of using "abusive language" against a fellow Zanu-PF party member, who had a portrait of Mrs Mugabe...

Egypt said on Monday it had found no evidence so far of terrorism or other illegal action linked to the crash of a Russian passenger plane in Sinai that killed all 224 people on board on Oct. 31. Russia and...

At least 34 bodies have been found in Burundi's capital after the worst night of violence in recent times. Most of the bodies found on the streets of Bujumbura appear to be young men killed by gunfire, some with their...

Saudi Arabian women voted for the first time on Saturday in local council elections and also stood as candidates, a step hailed by some activists in the Islamic patriarchy as a historic change, but by others as merely symbolic. "As...

A ceasefire in Yemen's civil war will start on Dec. 14, the eve of planned peace talks in Switzerland next week, the head of the Houthi delegation to the peace talks said on Saturday. "Based on what had been agreed...

North and South Korea ended talks on Saturday without coming to any joint agreement, South Korean media reported. Hwang Boogi, South Korea's chief delegate, was quoted by the Yonhap News agency as saying the two Koreas had not scheduled any...