The president of Cyprus assured his people a bailout deal he struck with the European Union was in their best interests and would end anxiety, but he also announced “very temporary” capital...
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The European Union suspended most sanctions on Zimbabwe on Monday after voters there approved a new constitution paving the way for an election to decide whether President Robert Mugabe extends...
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Cypriots face years of economic hardship due to a harsh euro-zone bailout deal, analysts said yesterday, while the Mediterranean island's future in the currency remains deeply uncertain. The...
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Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to curb access to welfare, housing and free health care for non-Britons, as political parties jostle to persuade voters they understand concerns over...
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Hundreds of thousands of people - conservative activists, schoolchildren with their parents, retirees, priests - converged on Paris in a last-ditch bid to stop a draft law allowing same-sex...
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A highly anticipated argument over gay marriage this week in the US Supreme Court could decide the fate of gay couples across the country and redefine marriage in the 40 states that do not allow...
03:31AM
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that "normalisation" of ties with Israel will take time, hinting that Turkey wants to ensure victims of a flotilla raid are compensated and Israel...
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Officials confirmed the late dictator's second wife, Safia, daughter Aisha, and sons Hannibal and Muhammad had fled the upmarket coastal region of Staoueli, close to Algiers, where they had lived...
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Colonel Riad al-Asaad, founder of the insurgent Free Syrian Army (FSA), lost a leg after an explosion in rebel-controlled Syria in an apparent assassination attempt, opposition sources yesterday...
03:23AM
Hundreds of thousands of people - conservative activists, schoolchildren with their parents, retirees, priests - converged on Paris in a last-ditch bid to stop a draft law allowing same-sex...
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South Africa yesterday said 13 of its soldiers were killed in a battle against the Seleka rebels over the weekend, as up to 3,000 fighters attacked its troops while advancing through the capital,...
03:37AM
Algerian Djamel Okacha has been named as a new commander of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), replacing Abdelhamid Abou Zeid who was killed in fighting in northern Mali, Algerian Ennahar TV...
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An Australian emigrant and reputed Israeli spy who died in an Israeli jail in 2010 was arrested after conducting a bungled and unauthorised bid to recruit a double agent with links to Lebanon's...
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