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The body of Nelson Mandela arrived on Saturday at his ancestral home in the rolling hills of South Africa's Eastern Cape and was greeted by singing, dancing locals ahead of the anti-apartheid leader's state funeral set for the following...

A suspected grenade attack on a minibus in Kenya's capital on Saturday killed at least four people near a Somali-dominated area of the city, police said, an incident that mirrors explosions last year that were blamed on Somali militants. Last...

Domestic support for a French peacekeeping operation in Central African Republic has fallen quickly since the deaths of two young soldiers, a poll showed on Saturday. Nicolas Vokaer, 23, and Antoine Le Quinio, 22, were killed in a firefight during...

JANG SONG THAEK, WITH HIS HANDS TIED WITH A ROPE, IS DRAGGED INTO THE COURT BY UNIFORMED PERSONNEL   North Korea has executed the powerful uncle of young leader Kim Jong Un, state media said on Friday, the biggest upheaval in...

AKE SELLSTROM (L), HEAD OF THE UNITED NATIONS MISSION TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGATIONS OF THE USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC, HANDS HIS REPORT OVER TO SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS, BAN KI-MOON Chemical weapons were likely used...

At least four people were killed in Bangladesh on Friday when supporters of Islamist leader Abdul Quader Mollah vented their fury at his execution for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. The decision to hang...

CHIEF OF INDONESIA'S GOLKAR PARTY, ABURIZAL BAKRIE Indonesia's autocratic former President Suharto left office in disgrace, his political empire and the economy in ruin, but 15 years later, his old ruling party hopes nostalgia for his legacy will sweep it...

The leader of a protest group trying to overthrow Thailand's government and scrap planned elections said on Friday the prime minister should either step down or be forced out, and his movement would then need around a year to...

The United States and Britain suspended non-lethal aid to northern Syria after Islamist fighters seized Western-backed rebel weapons warehouses, highlighting fears that supplies could end up in the wrong hands. The rebel Free Syrian Army fighting President Bashar al-Assad said...

Ukrainian protesters stood their ground on Wednesday after an overnight sweep by riot police and their leaders dismissed an offer of talks from a president they say must quit for favoring ties with Russia over the European Union. Pressed by...