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Netanyahu claims victory in Israel election
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel\'s election after exit polls showed he had erased his center-left rivals\' lead with a ...Egypt to end on-arrival visas for lone foreign nationals
Egypt will stop issuing on-arrival visas to lone travellers, officials said Tuesday, in a move aimed at bolstering border security but prompting ...UN, Sudan in talks on Darfur peacekeeping force
The United Nations and Sudan began talks in Khartoum Tuesday to prepare for an eventual orderly withdrawal of UN/African Union peacekeepers from ...Food shortage fears for Vanuatu islands devastated by Cyclone Pam
International aid agencies ramped up appeals for cyclone-hit Vanuatu on Wednesday, warning that the powerful storm which affected more than two-thirds of ...Myanmar court jails three for insulting Buddhism
A Myanmar court on Tuesday sentenced a New Zealand bar manager and his business associates to 2 1/2 years in prison for ...Danish parties agree to hold EU referendum by March 2016
Danish parties representing 75 percent of parliament agreed on Tuesday to hold a referendum on whether to adopt EU justice rules no ...Pakistan executes 12 prisoners after death penalty ban lifted
Pakistani officials on Tuesday executed 12 people in the country\'s single-largest day of executions since a moratorium on the death penalty was ...Israelis vote in parliamentary elections
Israelis head to the polls Tuesday in a vote seen as a referendum on embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who ruled out ...Netanyahu says no to Palestinian state if re-elected
Israel\'s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a final bid to shore up right-wing support ahead of a knife-edge vote on Tuesday, said ...US tycoon charged with murder after TV `confession`
An eccentric US tycoon appeared in court on Monday accused of the execution-style killing of a mobster\'s daughter in the latest installment ...




