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BARIS GULER (C IN SUNGLASSES), SON OF TURKEY'S INTERIOR MINISTER MUAMMER GULER, IS ESCORTED BY PLAINCLOTHES POLICE OFFICERS AS HE LEAVES A MEDICAL CHECK-UP IN ISTANBUL Five Turkish police commissioners were sacked a day after the sons of cabinet ministers...

DESIGNATED DEFENCE MINISTER URSULA VON DER LEYEN (C), GESTURES AS SHE STANDS BESIDE GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL (R) Angela Merkel was elected to a third term as chancellor in a vote in the German lower house of parliament on Tuesday,...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's aunt was absent from a state memorial ceremony on Tuesday raising questions about her influence days after her husband, also a top state official, was executed. The purging and execution of Jang Song Thaek...

The Syrian government excluded the largely rebel-held province of Deir al-Zor - where polio broke out this year - from a 2012 vaccination campaign, arguing that most residents had fled although hundreds of thousands were still there, a Reuters...

British police on Tuesday ruled out reopening an investigation into the death of Princess Diana in a Paris car crash in 1997 after examining an accusation the elite SAS commando regiment was involved in her death. London's Metropolitan Police said...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in the Philippines on Tuesday, seeking to modernize economic and political ties with one of America's oldest allies in South East Asia. Kerry's two-day visit takes him to the capital, Manila, for talks...

A nine-meter (30-foot) bronze statue of Nelson Mandela with his arms outstretched to symbolize unity and reconciliation was unveiled in South Africa on Monday, a day after the nation buried the former president and anti-apartheid hero. The 4.5 metric ton...

Suicide bombers and gunmen killed at least 54 people in Iraq on Monday, medical and police sources said, in attacks mostly targeting Shi'ite Muslims, who mark a big religious festival next week. Al Qaeda-linked Sunni Muslim militants have intensified attacks...

Divisions emerged in the European Union's policy towards Ukraine on Monday as the Dutch foreign minister slapped down a senior EU official for announcing on Twitter that he had suspended work on a trade agreement with Kiev. EU foreign ministers...

Austria's renewed coalition government of mainstream pro-Europe parties got off to a rough start on Monday as hundreds of people dismayed by the scrapping of the science ministry protested outside the swearing-in ceremony. "Heinzi, don't do it", one sign read,...