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MANAMA: Bahrain more than doubled the prices of beef and chicken on Thursday, removing meat subsidies in a politically sensitive move designed to...

Representational image By Karolina Tagaris ATHENS: Afghan refugee Khodadad spends his days huddled with his family in an Athens square with little food,...

BRUSSELS: Scandal-hit Volkswagen has for years hired a cadre of lobbyists in the EU capital of Brussels who work intensely behind-the-scenes to influence...

Models of high speed trains are seen during the China High Speed Railway on Fast Track exhibition in Jakarta, Indonesia on September 6  ...

RIYADH: Saudi authorities have yet to provide a breakdown of the nationalities of the 769 Muslim pilgrims killed in the hajj stampede, but...

BANGKOK: A Thai court has handed a rare suspended jail term to a man convicted for royal defamation, his lawyer said Thursday, as...

    By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton LONDON: Europe's rushed acceptance of hundreds of thousands of migrants is turning many Britons against the European...

  NEW DELHI: Supply of goods was affected in most parts of the country on Thursday as lakhs of trucks went off the roads...

    KOLKATA: In the backdrop of the uncertainty over a bilateral cricket series, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Shahryar Khan on Thursday urged India...

GURGAON: Three women were among 53 people arrested here for publicly passing lewd comments and making obscene gestures, police said on Thursday. The...

KUNDUZ: Afghan forces pushed into the centre of Kunduz Thursday, triggering pitched gunfights as they sought to flush out Taliban insurgents who held...

JERUSALEM: Mahmud Abbas's UN declaration that he is no longer bound by accords with Israel has the potential to upturn what remains of...

  BELGRADE: The widow of Slobodan Milosevic, often dubbed the "Lady Macbeth of the Balkans", on Thursday released a lengthy autobiography defending the Serbian...

PARIS: Earth is on track for average warming of 2.7 degrees Celsius by 2100, higher than the UN target, said an analysis Thursday...

PARIS: Flicking your cigarette butt in a Parisian street could from Thursday net you a stiff 68 euro ($75) fine as the city...

By By Laila Bassam BEIRUT: Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria in the last 10 days and will soon join government...

A video grab made on September 30, 2015, shows an image taken footage made available on the Russian Defence Ministry's official website, purporting...

DUBAI: Bahraini security forces have discovered a large bomb-making factory and arrested a number of suspects linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the interior...