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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):Brazil's Senate yesterday began deliberating whether to permanently remove President Dilma Rousseff from office, the final step in a leadership fight that has paralysed Congress and cast a pall over...

HAVANA (AP):Colombia's government and the country's biggest rebel group reached a historic deal Wednesday evening for ending a half-century of hostilities in one of the world's longest-running and bloodiest armed conflicts.President Juan Manuel...

Heavy monsoon rains have ended two successive drought years in India with the Ganges River and its tributaries rising above the danger level, triggering the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from flooded homes in north and eastern India.

BOGOTA (AP):Colombia's president said yesterday that government negotiators and leftist rebels are putting the final touches on a peace deal that they hope to announce in the coming hours."Today, I hope to give historic,...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP):Turkish and American justice officials met yesterday to discuss Turkey's demands for the extradition of a United States-based cleric accused of masterminding last month's failed coup attempt...

NEW DELHI (AP):Doctors in northern India have surgically removed 40 knives from the stomach of Police Constable Surjeet Singh who had swallowed them over the past two months, one of the physicians said on Tuesday.The 42-year-old man is recovering in...

ANKARA (AP):Turkey is determined to fight Islamic State (IS) group extremists inside Turkey and in Syria, the Turkish foreign minister said yesterday, after a suicide bomber attacked a Kurdish wedding party, killing at least...

VENTOTENE (AP):The leaders of Italy, France and Germany vowed yesterday to improve Europe's defence and economic prospects as they paid tribute to one of the founding fathers of European unity in a symbolic bid to relaunch the EU after Britain's...