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In a dusty courtyard in Egypt's Nile Delta, men gather to ask for favors at the home of retired police general Sayyed Azb. Some are seeking jobs, others want certificates proving they are literate or help in securing building licenses...

Young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is suffering from "discomfort", state media has said in the first official acknowledgement of ill health after a prolonged period out of the public eye. Kim, 31, who is frequently the centrepiece of...

Iraq has "credible" intelligence that Islamic State militants plan to attack subway systems in Paris and the United States, the prime minister said on Thursday, but U.S. and French officials said they had no evidence to back up his...

A court in Jordan acquitted radical preacher Abu Qatada of charges of plotting to bomb millennium celebrations in Jordan in 2000, semi-state owned newspaper Addustour reported Wednesday. The court ordered his immediate release if no other cases are raised against...

The U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria earlier this week were just the beginning. There will be more to come, President Barack Obama vowed. His words were borne out overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, when airstrikes were carried out against five more targets,...

At least 43 people have died and many are missing in floods and landslides caused by heavy rains that lashed India's remote northeast, officials said on Wednesday, in the second flood tragedy to strike the subcontinent this month. Officials in...

The former deputy head of China's top planning agency confessed in court on Wednesday to extensive bribery involving several companies including a Toyota Motor Corp. joint venture, the court said. Liu Tienan, 59, was sacked as deputy head of the...

On the day the new Ebola clinic in Liberia opened, ambulances waited outside. Inside the ambulances were desperately ill patients who had come for treatment but instead would be left to lie on the ground as others walked by. The...

A day out turned to tragedy Tuesday when a white tiger in a New Delhi zoo mauled a visitor to death, an official said. The attack happened around lunchtime after the visitor "jumped into the tiger's enclosure," zoo director Amitabh...

The relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia deserves to be better, though differences between the two oil-producing Middle Eastern states appear to be narrowing, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday. Shi'ite Muslim Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia are enmeshed...