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The tiny Pacific island of Nauru recognized the rebel Black Sea region of Abkhazia on Tuesday, throwing its weight behind a Russian drive to win international recognition for Georgia's breakaway territories.
Berlin - A German diplomat has travelled to Yemen to help negotiate the release of a family kidnapped earlier this year, the foreign office confirmed on Sunday. The trip is part of the intensive efforts by the emergency task force to achieve a solut...
Tehran - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday again warned the opposition over its efforts to undermine the ruling Islamic establishment. His warning on state television came after protests in which images of him and Grand Ayatollah...
Ramallah - This week's meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) central council comes amid growing internal and external pressure on the Palestinian leadership. The United States and Europe are pushing hard for a renewal of the suspen...
Hochfilzen, Austria - Olga Zaitseva kept her cool when it mattered on the anchor leg as world and Olympic champions Russia won a biathlon women's relay race on Sunday. Zaitseva had to reload only once in two trips to the shooting range as she won the...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Regulators on Friday shut down banks in Florida, Arizona and Kansas, bringing to 133 the number of U.S. banks that have failed to hold up this year against the struggling economy and a cascade of loan defaults.
Moscow - Incumbent president of Georgia's disputed breakaway republic of Abkhazia, Sergei Bagapsh, has been re-elected, the election commission office said Sunday. The 60-year-old leader won 59.4 per cent of the vote in Saturday's poll, according to ...
The rebel Georgian region of Abkhazia re-elected President Sergei Bagapsh, preliminary election results showed on Sunday, in a vote hailed by protector Russia but shunned by most of the world.
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Thailand Saturday detained five men after they made an emergency landing in Bangkok with a cargo plane from North Korea full of heavy weapons, ministers and officials said.
Bangkok - Thailand will charge five Kazakhstan and Belarus crew members who landed a cargo plane with 35 tons of weapons at a Bangkok airport on the weekend, the prime minister said Sunday. We will strictly follow our own laws and UN resolutions, T...
SUKHUMI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia on Tuesday won recognition by the South Pacific island nation of Nauru, one of the world's smallest states.
Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia on Tuesday won recognition by the South Pacific island nation of Nauru, one of the world's smallest states.
The J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in downtown Wilmington was surrounded by dozens of police vehicles during the morning rush hour Monday as police officers, some in body armor, paced back and forth behind traffic barricades.
The U.S. will reportedly participate in U.N. talks on cybercrime and cyberwar that it avoided for several years. President Barack Obama's administration wants to tackle rising attacks on U.S. institutions, many of them from China and Russia.
Thai authorities focused Tuesday on the mammoth task of inspecting 35 tons of weapons seized from a cargo plane loaded in North Korea, as details of the aircraft's alleged shady past emerged but its ultimate destination remained a mystery.
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