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Why US distancing itself from S Arabia
The US is using a charade of negotiations to thwart the increasing influence of both Russia and China, an American scholar and political analyst says.

The US is using a charade of negotiations to thwart the increasing influence of both Russia and China, an American scholar and political analyst says.

Austrian police say Germany is sending a few hundred refugees back to Austria every day.

UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR) have been found to have paid young girls for sex, a report says.

EU nations reach a deal to enhance intelligence sharing amid growing threats posed by extremists.

It seems the Saudi Arabian regime is trying to provoke a clash with Iran, desperately hoping that the US will come to their rescue, an American political analyst says.

A large explosion in central Istanbul has left at least 10 people killed and 15 others injured, its governor's office says.

The group of oil producing countries, OPEC, expects an emergency meeting over plunging oil prices.

Iraqi Turkmen leaders say the local Kurdish government is exploiting the war on Daesh to dig a trench that will divide the country.

At least 10 people have been killed and 20 others injured as Saudi warplanes pounded a tourist area in the Yemeni capital.

German firms find Iranian transportation sector appealing for investment.

The Punta de Rieles prison in Uruguay’s capital Montevideo allows the inmates to work at one or more of the 22 business ventures available inside the correctional facility.

Hundreds of masked hooligans riot to mark the birth anniversary of a PEGIDA offshoot in the German city of Leipzig.

Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi has won the Ballon d'Or award for the world's best player for the fifth time.

Two Canadian political leaders urge Ottawa to stop hiding its 2015 report on the situation of human rights in the Saudi Kingdom.

Iraqi forces liberate more areas in the conflict-ridden western province of Anbar.

The US is spending billions of dollars on Afghanistan's “ghost soldiers,” who only exist only on paper, a report says.

Iran has started foreign sales of gas oil after achieving self-sufficiency in production of the fuel.

American investigators will see into a meeting between Hollywood actor Sean Penn and the newly-recaptured drug kingpin, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.