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Nearly three months after police cleared away the last of Hong Kong's pro-democracy street protests, lingering anger is stoking a new front of radical activism that has turned shopping malls and university campuses into a fresh battleground. While still relatively...

An Egyptian court sentenced a prominent activist to five years in jail on Monday for violating a law that seeks to curtail demonstrations, part of one of the toughest crackdowns on dissent in the country's history. After the verdict was...

Turkish forces swept into Syria overnight to rescue about 40 soldiers who had been surrounded for months by Islamic State militants while guarding the tomb of a revered Turkish figure. The Syrian government described the operation as act of "flagrant...

Militants claiming loyalty to Islamic State said they were behind Sunday's twin bomb attacks on the residence of the Iranian ambassador in the Libyan capital and a rocket strike on the eastern Labraq airport. The attack on the ambassador's residence...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif try to narrow gaps in another round of nuclear talks in Geneva on Sunday as they press to meet a March 31 deadline for a political...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe turned 91-years-old on Saturday showing no sign of giving up power as the West slowly eases pressure on a man who has been an international pariah for the last decade. Mugabe, one of the Africa's most...

Hundreds of people in Dubai were evacuated from one of the world's tallest residential buildings on Saturday when fire swept through The Torch, a 79-story skyscraper, residents said. Dubai's police chief, General Khamis Mattar, said the fire appeared to be...

New U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Saturday he would not telegraph the precise timing of an upcoming Iraqi offensive to retake the city of Mosul from Islamic State militants, after a U.S. military briefing caused an uproar. Two...

The Malian government has signed a ceasefire deal with rebels in a bid to end long-running unrest in the country's north. As part of a UN-sponsored peace process, both sides agreed to an "immediate cessation" of hostilities. The deal was signed...

Britain said on Thursday that Libya needed a unified government before the United Nations Security Council could change an arms embargo in order to better equip Libya's military to combat Islamic State and other militants. The United States also believes...