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Israeli forces are carrying out more special operations beyond the country's borders and will be ready to attack Iran's nuclear…

PARIS — French voters headed to the polls on Sunday for the first round of a presidential election that is…

Southwest Tunisia has some of the world's richest phosphate deposits, but a recent series of violent protests by jobless residents…

South Sudanese forces were continuing a pullout from Sudan's main Heglig oilfield on Saturday, an official said, as US President…

French presidential candidates marked a one day truce Saturday on the eve of voting in a first-round poll to whittle…

International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Friday that he wants to investigate rapes committed during the Libyan conflict last…

A British historian said Saturday he had unearthed a trove of Egyptian Book of the Dead fragments by a top…

BHUBANESWAR, India — India on Thursday successfully test-fired a new missile capable of delivering a one-ton nuclear warhead anywhere in…

Arab countries are wasting tens of billions of dollars on subsidies for petrol and energy but dare not roll them…

Down a rutted dirt alley in Old Kabul, the "Girl in the green dress" — the subject of AFP's Pulitzer-winning…