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With competition continuing to heat up in the handset market, Samsung Electronics is relying heavily on virtual reality to help distinguish its smartphones.The South Korean manufacturer, which is the world’s largest phone maker by…

Jeb Bush dropped out of the presidential race on Saturday, ending a quest for the White House that started with a war chest of $100 million, a famous name and a promise of political civility but concluded with a humbling recognition: In…

An Egyptian court has sentenced an author to two years in jail after sexually explicit extracts from his novel were published in state media.The case was filed by a private citizen who complained that the passage caused him distress…

The Islamic State group says it carried out bomb attacks in the Syrian capital Damascus and the city of Homs, which left at least 140 people dead.Four blasts in the southern Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab killed at least 83…

A baby at the centre of an asylum row in Australia has been released from hospital into community detention.But the government says baby Asha will be sent to an offshore camp in Nauru once she is well.Doctors refused to…

The Islamic State is growing in Libya. But to fight it, the Libyan state has to be resurrected. Critical moves are expected in the next few days and weeks.Almost every day brings a different European leader calling for military…

Violent clashes erupted late Sunday in Teeka and Al-Marisa areas between Benghazi Shura Council and 302 brigade amid news saying that Al-Tawheed brigade controlled Al-Wadi road near Al-Hiwari hospital.Sources from Karama told Press…

Fresh clashes broke out in Derna city between the city’s Shura Council fighters and IS militants, who lost one fighter, Hamid Abdelsalam, in Al-Wadi street area, sources reported.The source added that Derna city’s Shura fighters…

The EU will only intervene against the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Libya if it receives an official invitation from the legitimate government of the country, the union’s top diplomat said."Defeating…

At least 46 people have been killed in a double car bombing in the Syrian city of Homs, a monitoring group has said.Most of the dead appear to be civilians, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.It is not…