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President Hugo Chavez's re-election on Sunday means Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA will remain highly politicized and will continue its discount supply deals with his socialist allies. Chavez, 58,...

The mystery surrounding the unmanned drone that penetrated Israeli airspace on Saturday from the Mediterranean continues, although there is growing speculation that it could actually have been launched by...

Kazakhstan's President Nazarbayev to travel to Turkey on Thursday. Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev will pay a formal visit to Turkey on October 11-12 in terms of impulse to strengthen...

Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Monday that "worst case scenarios" are becoming a reality in neighboring Syria over its 19-month civil war -- which has spilled over into border...

Following the five-day long shelling from the Syrian side, UN chief Ban warns that the rising violence along the Turkish-Syrian border and the effect of the Syrian conflict on...

Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoabi says Turkey has made a “political and diplomatic gaffe” for suggesting that the country’s vice president take over a future transitional government. "What (Turkish...

The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, said that OIC would keep supporting Somalia in its next phase. The Secretary General of the Organisation of...

Chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE pose a security threat to the US, a congressional panel has warned after an investigation into the two companies. The two firms should...

The eurozone's new permanent fund to bail out struggling economies and banks has been formally launched at a meeting of finance ministers in Luxembourg. The European Stability Mechanism (ESM)...

Egypt's President Mohammed Mursi has pardoned all those arrested during last year's popular uprising that ousted the country's former leader Hosni Mubarak. A post on the president's official Facebook...