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Seoul: South Korea's special prosecutor's office said yesterday it summoned a Samsung Electronics Co Ltd executive for questioning as it investigates a widening...

Zamboanga City:Suspected IS-linked gunmen have taken three Indonesians from a fishing vessel in the Sulu Sea, in the southwestern Philippines, the military said...

Mazar-i-Sharif:A BLAST hit spectators after a game of buzkashi, or polo with a carcass, in northern Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least three people...

Islamabad: Authorities in Pakistan's largest province have ordered several women's and human rights groups to shut down, accusing them of unspecified "anti-state" activities,...

Kabul: An Afghan official says four Taliban have been killed and two insurgents, with suspected ties to the jihadist group the Islamic Movement...

Dublin: Sinn Fein will name a successor to Martin McGuinness on Monday to lead the Irish nationalist party into Northern Irish elections in...

Athens: The EU’s migration chief yesterday huddled with mayors of five Greek islands where anger is mounting over continued presence of more than...

Madrid: Spain has arrested a 32-year-old Russian computer programmer at Barcelona airport who is alleged to have designed and used software to steal...

Brussels: A Belgian court yesterday upheld French comedian Dieudonne’s two-month jail sentence for incitement to hatred over racist and anti-Semitic comments during a...

As an African-American woman, I find the 2016 campaign - and now the 2017 inauguration - doubly painful. Donald Trump’s victory revealed inconvenient...

Turkey declared that is was exercising its rights of self-defence codified under the UN Charter Article 51, and launched Operation Euphrates Shield. A...

Belfast: Children in Northern Ireland suffered decades of cruel physical and emotional abuse in institutions run by the state, charities and the Catholic...

New Delhi: Cash flow, restricted post-demonetisation, will normalise soon but might take longer in rural and remote areas, Reserve Bank of India (RBI)...

Yangon: Myanmar's government lashed out at Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday, accusing him of using the Rohingya crisis unfolding in Rakhine state...

Edinburgh: The countdown to a second Scottish independence referendum appears to have begun after Prime Minister Theresa May laid out the course towards...

Bucharest: ROMANIA’S president urged the government yesterday to scrap draft decrees pardoning thousands of prisoners and decriminalising some graft offences, joining other critics...

Lima: HEAVY rain and equipment failure stalled efforts in Peru yesterday to rescue seven miners who were trapped in a tunnel hundreds of...

Cannon Ball, North Dakota: Tensions have increased this week near construction site of the Dakota Access pipeline, with repeated clashes between protesters and...