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The Philippines' post-typhoon reconstruction could take as long as 10 years, with the leadership of President Benigno Aquino put to a test amid complex problems such as property rights, missing title deeds and land zoning, experts said on Wednesday. The...

Party leaders German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Horst Seehofer (C) of the Christian Social Union (CSU) and Sigmar Gabriel of the Social Democratic Party   Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD)...

Libya's army clashed with Islamist militants in the eastern city of Benghazi early on Wednesday and three soldiers were shot dead, security and medical officials said. Western powers, worried about stability in Libya, have promised more aid to the army...

Syrian authorities will attend talks in January aimed at resolving the civil war but will not succumb to Western demands for President Bashar al-Assad to step aside, a Foreign Ministry source said on Wednesday. It was the first formal response...

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has refused to sign a security deal with the United States, the White House said, opening up the prospect of a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from the strife-torn nation next year. Karzai told U.S. National...

An independent Scotland would keep the British pound, the queen and remain in the European Union but have its own defense force and collect its own taxes, First Minister Alex Salmond said in a report published on Tuesday. In a...

Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead two Russian military instructors in the Yemeni capital on Tuesday, a Yemeni police source said. The source said the instructors, who worked with the Yemeni army, were shot as they left a hotel where...

Abu Huseyin says he has sent dozens of people from this ancient city in southeastern Turkey to join jihadist groups in northern Syria and vows to continue helping them fulfill what he says is their duty to God. Several hundred...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, November 25, (THEWILL) - The Los Angeles Police Department has announced the closure of streets as US President Barack Obama visits Los Angeles County, California, to attend three functions including a fundraising event at the Beverly...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, November 25, (THEWILL) - The Angolan government has ordered the shutdown of all mosques and declared that Islam is illegal in the country, according to news reports. The Weekly French-language Moroccan newspaper, La Nouvelle Tribune, in a...