An 11-strong team from the international chemical weapons watchdog have been kidnapped on a fact-finding mission in the central Syrian province of Hama, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. "Eleven people -- five Syrian drivers and six other members of ...

An 11-strong team from the international chemical weapons watchdog have been kidnapped on a fact-finding mission in the central Syrian province of Hama, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. "Eleven people -- five Syrian drivers and six other members of ...

Real Madrid secured a 10th European Cup when they snatched a stoppage-time equaliser before extra-time goals by Gareth Bale, Marcelo and a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty gave them a 4-1 win over Atletico Madrid in the Champions League final on Saturday ...

Malawi's President Joyce Banda on Saturday went on radio to declare this week's chaotic election "null and void," throwing the impoverished nation into crisis. Banda has claimed there were "serious irregularities" with the poll, saying people had voted ...

Two car bombs ripped through a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Tuesday, the latest in a series of deadly blasts, as a state of emergency was extended in the troubled northeast. The blasts happened at the New Abuja Market, the ...

Ivory Coast's Midfielder Yaya Toure is considering departing Premier League champions Manchester City this summer, the player's agent Dimitry Seluk revealed. Seluk hinted that Toure doesn't feel the appropriate appreciation from the English cup, ...

Without even firing a shot, masked rebel gunmen overran a Ukrainian military headquarters in the main eastern city of Donetsk on Friday and swiftly declared they were in control. After a couple of hours of what one local described as "negotiations", uniformed ...

Nigerian protesters marched on parliament Wednesday to demand the government and military do more to rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists more than two weeks ago. Dubbed "a million woman march" and promoted on Twitter ...

Two mortars landed near voting centres west of Baghdad Wednesday morning as Iraqis went to the polls in the country's first general election since US troops withdrew, an official said. The mortars did not cause any casualties, according to Shaker al-Essawi, ...

A key Palestine Liberation Organisation body was set to hold Saturday talks after Israel pulled out of US-sponsored peace negotiations in response to a Palestinian reconciliation deal with Hamas. The meeting of the PLO's Central Council at its West Bank ...

Many in Nigeria reckon that even discussing Boko Haram is tantamount to sacrilege. That said there are those who believe care must be taken to avoid pushing Boko Haram into a corner. The Nigerian government, the advocates of containing Boko Haram ...

Many in Nigeria reckon that even discussing Boko Haram is tantamount to sacrilege. That said there are those who believe care must be taken to avoid pushing Boko Haram into a corner. The Nigerian government, the advocates of containing Boko Haram ...

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired three rockets into Israel on Monday but caused no casualties or property damage, the army said in a statement. It said the projectiles fell in the Negev desert region of southern Israel. The attack came during a public ...

Heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped more than 100 girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, sparking a search by soldiers to track down the attackers, a security source and witnesses said Tuesday. The unprecedented mass abduction in Borno ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that Israel would take unilateral measures against the Palestinians if they go ahead with applications to adhere to international treaties. "These will only make a peace agreement more distant," he said of ...

In popular idiom, doppelgänger hails from the German, meaning “look-alike” in behaviour or physical appearance. The frontline of Palestinian non-violent resistance in the West Bank of the State of Palestine is not in Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian ...

Blasts kill one and injure five outside Cairo University. Egypt's political forces give their reactions while Islamist students claim a security forces plot to create more violence. Mariam Rizk, Wednesday 2 Apr 2014. Print · Send · Tweet · Share/Bookmark. Blast.

The top leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood accused Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former army chief widely tipped to become the country's next president, of being a tyrant and predicted he would fail to stay in power. Speaking on Tuesday from a cage in a ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's powerful prime minister, once said: “If I can not set the agenda [for the public to debate], I cannot be the prime minister.” Five months later he repeated: “If a prime minister cannot set the agenda, he should not remain in office.

A southern Egyptian court has set April 28 as the date for a ruling on a case where 683 suspected Islamists, including the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, Mohamed Badie, face several charges, including murder, a judicial source said.