(Reuters) - Indian border forces killed four Pakistani interior-ministry troops on New Year's Eve, ending a year in which clashes between the nuclear-armed neighbors have escalated and hopes for reconciliation faded. Wednesday's incident, on the international border in...

  (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's elderly King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz was admitted to a hospital on Wednesday for medical tests, state media said, citing a royal court statement, after he suffered what one source described as breathing difficulties. King Abdullah, who took...

DAMASCUS(AFP)- Syria will award 50 percent of vacant government posts to relatives of soldiers and government employees killed or paralyzed in the country's conflict, according to a law issued on Wednesday. The law, decreed by President Bashar Assad after passing parliament earlier in the...

Some 700 illegal migrants rescued from a ship near the Greek island of Corfu arrived in Italy on Wednesday, after their boat was intercepted while "drifting" towards the coast. Dozens of official cars met the migrants as they arrived in the port of Gallipoli, in the southeast of Italy, at...