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One is a pragmatist: a 47-year-old lawyer by training who has steered France's far-right National Front (FN) from pariah status…

Venezuela's opposition won a majority of 99 out of 167 seats in the state legislature, electoral authorities said Monday, the…

Myanmar's feared former junta leader Than Shwe has endorsed his one-time nemesis Aung San Suu Kyi as a "future leader"…

The International Committee of the Red Cross has said it is trying to establish relations with the Islamic State group…

Warring Libyan factions meeting in Tunisia said Sunday they had reached an agreement to be approved by rival parliaments on…

Britain's bombing campaign against Islamic State extremists in Syria is "illegal" and will only cause "terrorism" to spread, President Bashar…

Nine Egyptian policemen have been arrested in an investigation into the death of a man in police custody in Luxor,…

Tashka Yawanawa's Amazonian tribe lived on the plains along the Gregorio River for millennia -- until a wall of flood…

Oprah Winfrey will publish her memoirs in a new book deal according to The Hollywood Reporter. The US talk show host…

Quentin Tarantino has nothing on William Shakespeare – there are 74 onstage deaths in the Bard's plays, according to a…