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At least 20 people were killed on Thursday in a car bomb and gun battle at the Yemeni defense ministry compound in the capital Sanaa, sources inside the complex said, in one of the most serious attacks in the...

U.S. VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN (L) CHATS WITH CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG DURING THEIR MEETING AT THE ZHONGNANHAI DIPLOMATIC COMPOUND IN BEIJING   China's new air defense identification zone over the East China Sea has caused "significant" unease in the region,...

Pakistan's flamboyant chief justice has strengthened human rights but his inconsistent choice of cases has left the Supreme Court vulnerable to accusations of partisan intervention, a global group of 60 eminent judges and lawyers said on Thursday. Chief Justice Iftikhar...

AUSTRALIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER JULIE BISHOP (L) TALKS TO HER INDONESIAN COUNTERPART MARTY NATALEGAWA AFTER THEIR MEETING AS THEY LEAVE NATALEGAWA'S OFFICE IN JAKARTA   Indonesia and Australia announced on Thursday that they would set up a hotline as part of efforts...

France will tell African leaders at a Paris summit on Friday it will no longer play policeman on the continent, even as it prepares to act in a new conflict in Central African Republic after its Mali intervention this...

Protesters in Thailand trying to bring down the government abruptly ended a rally at national police headquarters on Wednesday but their leader said the fight would go on despite efforts by authorities to defuse the crisis. The military, which has...

Ukrainian ministers reached the main government headquarters in Kiev on Wednesday despite attempts by protesters to block their way and were preparing to hold a regular cabinet meeting, the government press service said. Thousands of protesters, demonstrating against the government's...

Global support for Afghanistan will fade the longer President Hamid Karzai delays signing a security pact with the United States, a senior U.S. official warned, as special envoy James Dobbins arrived in Kabul on Wednesday for talks with the...

Thousands of pro-EU protesters calling for the resignation of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich gathered outside parliament on Tuesday with opposition leaders pressing for a vote of no-confidence in his government. Only days after a massive rally that brought 350,000 protesters...

South Africa's government launched a widely unpopular road toll around the economic hub of Johannesburg on Tuesday, a move likely to heighten tensions with its union allies and alienate some voters in the run-up to next year's elections. The electronic...