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Islamic State militants have taken control of most of eastern Syria as they build on the momentum of their advance through Sunni Muslim provinces of neighboring Iraq. The jihadi group, which claims authority over Muslims worldwide, has seized weapons from...

Israeli air strikes wounded 15 people in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, local residents said, and militants kept up rocket fire on Israel, damaging two homes, in rising border tensions following the death of a Palestinian youth. Violent Arab protests...

Iran has reduced demands for the size of its future nuclear enrichment program in talks with world powers although Western governments are urging Tehran to compromise further, Western diplomats close to the negotiations said on Thursday. The diplomats, who spoke...

U.S. stock index futures ticked up in light volume on Thursday after the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials closed at a record, ahead of a short session on Wall Street that is packed with economic data. * The key...

U.S. employment growth is expected to have continued at a solid clip in June, which would further dispel fears about the economy's health and underscore its momentum heading into the second half of 2014. Nonfarm payrolls probably increased by 212,000...

Ousted American Apparel Inc (APP.A) Chief Executive Officer Dov Charney has handed over his entire stake and voting rights in the struggling retailer to Standard General LP, enabling the fund to negotiate directly with the independent directors over the...

Germany's private sector expanded at the slowest rate in eight months in June, a survey showed on Thursday, as manufacturing lost steam, although Europe's largest economy looked set to post solid growth in the second quarter. Markit's final composite Purchasing...

Peace eludes nation in a rocky political transition No one needs an alarm clock to wake up in Bangui in recent weeks. The sound of gunfire, sometimes sustained and heavy, has become a morning ritual in the Central African Republic’s...

No nation could ever prosper and reach the pinnacle of greatness without having concrete democratic structures put in place and those saddles with the responsibility of guarding such structures must possess a rare quality of leadership and the capacity...

Dele Momodu's column in Thisday Newspapers, Pendulum, has become a platform that he freely uses to mock the collective will of Nigerians and weekly cast aspersions on President Goodluck Jonathan. After woefully losing the 2011 Presidential election to President Jonathan...