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Madrid/Barcelona: The jailed leader of Catalonia's main pro-independence party has backed away from demands for unilateral secession from Spain, days...

Tripoli: The mayor of Libya's third-largest city Misrata has been killed by unidentified assailants who abducted him as he returned from an official...

Washington: US Senator John McCain will miss a key vote on the Republican tax bill because of a viral infection, further narrowing the already-thin margin...

Yangon: Myanmar's army burned down dozens of Rohingya homes within days of signing a refugee repatriation deal with Bangladesh, showing the agreement...

Jakarta: Eight miners were killed and at least three more were missing following a landslide on Monday on the slopes of a volcano on the Indonesian island...

Vienna: With a heavy police presence keeping protestors away, Austria's far right was sworn in Monday as part of the Alpine country's new...

Harare: Zimbabwe's army chiefs announced Monday the end of the military intervention which forced former president Robert Mugabe to resign, while urging...

Manila: Rescuers used bulldozers to dig through mountains of mud in the search for more than 40 people missing in the eastern Philippines after landslides...

Mumbai: Fire tore through a sweet shop in the Indian city of Mumbai before dawn on Monday, sparking a building collapse which killed 12 sleeping workers,...