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New Delhi: India looked forward to the first official visit here by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz...

Panaji: In a swift move, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, led by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, met Goa Governor Mridula Sinha yesterday and...

Kabul: At least 16 IS militants were killed in a series of air strikes conducted by the US forces in Afghanistan. The provincial...

Kabul: At least 31 insurgents were killed in a series of air strikes conducted by the Afghan and foreign forces in southern Helmand...

Yangon: The family of Myanmar's last king hit out yesterday at a Thai soap opera inspired by the palace intrigue of their ancestors,...

Driving the streets of the West Bank, you see Israeli-issued street signs reading, in Arabic, “Urshalaym”, the Hebrew word for Jerusalem instead of...

Islamabad: The Sindh government has taken the lead over other provinces, emerging as the country’s only province to have closed down over 2,300...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's deputy prime minister said yesterday that 315 North Koreans are in the country and barred from leaving amid a diplomatic...

Seoul: The front-runner to succeed South Korea's impeached president Park Geun-Hye yesterday called for unity as the country writes a "new history", while...

Moscow: A Russian woman pardoned by President Vladimir Putin after she was sentenced to seven years in jail for treason over a text...

Tokyo: An elephant whacked a trainer with its trunk and killed him at a Japanese zoo yesterday, police said. Wichai Madee from Thailand...

Sydney: Australia's Prime Minister  Malcolm Turnbull held talks with Elon Musk yesterday after the US innovator offered to solve the energy crisis plaguing...

Berlin: GERMAN police said yesterday they had released one of two men held over a terror attack threat that led authorities to shut...

Paris: Francois Fillon’s party has apologised for tweeting a caricature of Emmanuel Macron, his main rival in the race to be France’s next...

This was not supposed to happen in South Korea. It was too divided, too corrupt, too much in thrall to the rich and...

London: A British intelligence agency has told political parties to protect themselves against potential cyber attacks, citing allegations that Russian hackers tried to...

Rome: AN Italian who doused a homeless man in petrol and set him alight as he slept has confessed to the killing, telling...

ROME: Italian opposition politicians from the far right and former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's center-right party are demanding a new law on legitimate defense...