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AFTER more than six decades, Taiwan has opened a tourism office in Beijing that represents its first official presence in the Chinese capital since the two sides split amid civil war in

A TOP United States (U.S.) Republican lawmaker has made a sweeping election-year attack on President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, blasting a landmark nuclear cuts treaty with Russia and efforts to engage Iran.

ISRAEL'S Supreme Court has ordered the military to let Palestinians travel on the part of a major highway that runs through the West Bank, handing them their biggest victory yet against Jewish

THE Iranian authorities yesterday urged its supporters out onto the streets of major cities in a show of force against the opposition, which it accuses of being "pawns of the enemies." The

PRESIDENT Barack Obama yesterday admitted that a systemic failure allowed terror attack suspect,Umar Mutallab, a known extremist to get onto the United States-bound plane last week with explosives. Obama said he considered

On fewer than 30 suspected al-Qaeda militants have been killed by an air strike in a remote mountainous area of Yemen, security officials said yesterday. An unnamed official told reporters the strike

FIFTEEN Israeli civilians wounded in Palestinian rocket attacks have petitioned a Belgian court to issue arrest warrants against leaders of the Gaza Strip's ruling Hamas movement. The legal action follows a series

A COURT in China's Xinjiang region has sentenced five people to death for their role in July's deadly ethnic riots, the worst in decades. The sentences, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported,

IRANIAN authorities have banned memorials for the country's most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, and reiterated a stern warning to the opposition yesterday, after days of services in honour

FOR Iraqi Christians, Christmas celebrations will be under tighter wraps than usual as it comes at the same time as Ashoura, a period of Shiite mourning and self-flagellation. Therefore, with the Shiite