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THE US Supreme Court will rule this year on whether gay couples have a right to marry across all states. The justices said they would hear a combined case about marriage bans

AT least four people have been killed in violent protests against French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Niger’s second city of Zinder, officials say. A number of churches and the French cultural centre

BRITAIN and the US are to share expertise on preventing radicalism and tackling domestic “violent extremism”. Prime Minister David Cameron announced the move following talks with President Barack Obama at the White

POPE Francis has held an open-air Mass in the Philippine city of Tacloban, which was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan just over a year ago.Tens of thousands of people braved pouring rain and

SRI Lanka’s new government Friday announced lifting a ban on foreign nationals visiting to the island’s former war zones and scrapped an economic embargo on minority Tamil regions. President Maithripala Sirisena, just

TAIWAN’S agricultural officials on Friday said Avian Influenza Virus H5N3 has been detected for the first time in Taiwan, a report said. Officials of the Council of Agriculture said that 2,720 geese

A TEAM of Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmental scientists has warned that large stretches of the biblical river could dry up by 2011. They said much of what remains is nothing but

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