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KURDISH forces and their Syrian rebel allies have seized a belt of villages around Kobani from Islamic State militants, a senior official said Tuesday, days after they drove the extremists from the

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas, has ordered an investigation into a cartoon apparently depicting the Prophet Mohammad in an official Palestinian newspaper. According to Reuters, the move came less than a month

CIVILIANS are increasingly falling victim to fighting between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, with at least 224 killed and more than 540 others hurt in the final three weeks

FRENCH counter terrorism police arrested eight people with alleged links to jihadist cells in Lyon and the Paris suburbs yesterday morning, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said at a Paris press conference.

CANADA’S foreign minister said the release of Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy from a prison in Egypt is “imminent.” Fahmy, a dual Egyptian-Canadian citizen, has relinquished his Egyptian citizenship as prerequisite to

IN an historic move, MPs have voted in favour of the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man. The UK is now set to become the first country

THE World Health Organization said Tuesday it had appointed its assistant director-general Bruce Aylward to head its overall response to the deadly Ebola outbreak. It also said an independent commission was being

THE United Nations for Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) on Tuesday announced it received 13.5 million dollars from Saudi Arabia for victims of last summer’s Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. Adnan

ONLY eight out of China’s 74 biggest cities passed the government’s basic air quality standards in 2014, the environment ministry has said. The most polluted cities were in north-eastern Hebei, the province

LURID details of lunchtime sex parties emerged Tuesday as an ex-prostitute nicknamed “Jade” took the stand in a French trial over a high-end prostitution ring that landed former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn