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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Royal Australian Air Force surveillance plane was intercepted by a Chinese fighter aircraft in the South China Sea region in May, Australia's defence department said on Sunday. Th...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast, the South Korean military said on Sunday. (Reporting by Byungwook Kim; Editing by Leslie Adler)

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran President Xiomara Castro will send Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina to attend the U.S.-hosted Summit of the Americas in her place next week, the government said ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivorian economist Jean-Claude Brou, president of West Africa's main political bloc, has been nominated by Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara to be governor of the regional cen...

(Reuters) - Tajikistan on Saturday accused neighboring Kyrgyzstan of provoking a border clash, the latest in a series of armed confrontations between the two small impoverished Central Asian nations. ...

(Reuters) -The judicial council of Iraq's Kurdistan said the region's oil law remained in force, rejected a ruling from the federal supreme court that Kurdish authorities should hand over their crude ...

ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian man was burned to death by a mob in the capital Abuja on Saturday following an argument with a Muslim cleric, police said. Josephine Adeh, police spokesperson for Abuja, s...

TIRANA (Reuters) - Albania's parliament on Saturday voted in chief of defence Bajram Begaj as the country's new president, a largely ceremonial position.With 78 votes in favour in the 140-seat parliam...

By David Gauthier-Villars (Reuters) - A European Union decision to extend sanctions against Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko to his wife is "irrational" because she has never held Russian citize...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Saturday he would meet soon with Ukrainian officials to discuss the possibility of a visit to their country. Francis disclosed the comi...