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Thailand's main opposition party announced on Saturday it would boycott an election in February, deepening uncertainty about the poll and fuelling a campaign to overthrow Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government. Yingluck called a snap election on December 9 to try...

Egypt on Saturday referred to trial deposed President Mohamed Mursi and 129 others including members of the Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah on charges including killing policemen, a statement from the investigating judge said. The case, related to a...

Fighters from Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist sect armed with anti-aircraft guns and grenade launchers attacked a barracks in the volatile northeast and battled soldiers for several hours, the military said. The army said it used troops and planes to repel...

Sixteen people, including the sons of two ministers, were charged on Saturday in connection with a Turkish corruption investigation that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has called a "dirty operation" aimed at undermining his rule, media said. Suleyman Aslan, the general...

Ugandan MPs have passed a controversial bill that will ban miniskirts. The anti-pornography bill, which also outlaws overtly sexual material including music videos, was voted through after a short debate. When Simon Lokodo, Uganda's ethics and integrity minister, proposed the legislation...

US President Barack Obama has warned that South Sudan is on the "precipice" of a civil war, after clashes in the capital Juba spread around the country. He said 45 military personnel had been deployed to South Sudan on Wednesday...

Gunmen on Friday shot dead a town mayor and three other people at the airport in the Philippine capital, Manila, sending travelers fleeing for safety, authorities said. Ukol Talumpa was mayor of a town called Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur. Three...

A top official in China's prosperous Guangdong province is being investigated for "serious discipline violations", which is often a euphemism for corruption, state media said on Friday. The official, Cao Jianliao, is vice mayor of Guangzhou, the provincial capital of...

China and the United States have agreed to promote American beef exports in China, one of the world's fastest growing markets for the meat, China's vice commerce minister, Wang Chao, said on Friday. Further details were not immediately available. Wang...

Government forces were battling rebels to keep a foothold in a flashpoint town on Thursday, in a widening conflict that may split South Sudan along ethnic lines and has prompted an east African bid to mediate. Five days of fighting...