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PRO-Russian rebels said they will swap prisoners with the Ukrainian side Saturday as part of a battered truce that the West hopes will cool a deadly conflict that has poisoned relations with

NEW US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has arrived in Afghanistan days after taking up the post, saying he wants “lasting success” for the country. Mr Carter will meet US commanders and Afghan

CARACAS mayor and opposition politician Antonio Ledezma remained in custody Saturday following his arrest over what Venezuela president Nicolas Maduro alleges is a coup plot financed by the United States. The opposition

YEMENI President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who resigned last month under pressure from Shiite militia, left Sanaa on Saturday after weeks under effective house arrest, an aide told AFP. Hadi was headed to

TEN foreign workers have died in a fire that hit a tyre shop in Abu Dhabi, apparently trapping the labourers in a warehouse used illegally for accommodation, local media said Saturday. Eight

RUSSIAN government supporters are to rally in the capital Moscow to mark the first anniversary of what they view as a “coup” in neighbouring Ukraine. Thousands of people are expected for the

GREECE’S radical left government was at pains Saturday to put a positive face on an EU compromise deal that is sharply at odds with its anti-austerity ambitions. At a last-ditch meeting on

AUSTRALIA was clearing up Saturday after two severe cyclones left a trail of destruction, wrecking hundreds of homes and cutting electricity to tens of thousands, even as authorities warned of more flooding

RUSSIAN government supporters are to rally in the capital Moscow to mark the first anniversary of what they view as a “coup” in neighbouring Ukraine. Thousands of people are expected for the

THE United States and Latin American nations voiced concerns Friday over political tensions in Venezuela after the socialist government arrested the opposition mayor of Caracas in an alleged coup plot. Almost exactly