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EDINBURGH: The Scottish government will start preparing the legislation required for a new referendum on independence from the United Kingdom in case it is...

Beirut: Turkey-backed Syrian rebels would like to see a "safe zone" set up in areas of the border they are capturing from IS, but this would need...

Warsaw: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that a proposed meeting in Moscow with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be...

Paris/Baghdad: France said on Tuesday it was deploying artillery to Iraq and readying its aircraft carrier for deployment to reinforce foreign military...

Baghdad: At least nine people were killed in Baghdad late on Monday in a car bomb attack claimed by IS near a hospital in a central district, police and...

Amstrerdam: The Dutch government will assist Israel in improving water and gas supplies to energy-strapped Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on...

Almaty: Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged his support to the man emerging as the likely next leader of Uzbekistan on Tuesday, during a visit that put...

Lielvarde (Latvia): German and Latvian troops have begin a joint exercise in Latvia, not far from the Russian border, as part of a broad drive by NATO to...

Islamabad: More than five times the number of Afghan refugees returned home from Pakistan in August than in July, the United Nations' refugee office...

Salaga (Ghana): The leader of Ghana's main opposition party, Nana Akufo-Addo, climbed from his car, picked up a microphone and made a bold election...