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Seoul: South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed a seven-year prison sentence for the CEO of the company that operated the ill-fated Sewol...

Volunteer doctors and paramedics try to revive a baby after a boat carrying more than 200 refugees and migrants sunk while crossing part...

Beirut: A "significant increase" of air strikes on Syrian hospitals recently has killed at least 35 patients and medical staff and wounded 72,...

Miami: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly will Thursday set a new record for the longest single stretch of time spent in space by an...

Turkish police clash with supporters and employees of Bugun newspaper and Kanalturk television station holding up umbrellas during a protest in Istanbul against...

A boy waits with other migrants and refugees to board a bus in Sentilj, northeastern Slovenia, on October 28, 2015, to continue the...

  Vatican City: The Catholic Church on Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of a landmark declaration by which it ended centuries of officially condoned...

KATHMANDU: Nepal signed a deal on Wednesday with China to import petroleum products, its embassy in Beijing said, as the Himalayan nation tries...

Jerusalem: Israeli lawmakers voted Wednesday to make Arabic classes compulsory for students from the age of six, in a move backers hoped would...

London: Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday warned against calls by some eurosceptics for Britain to adopt a Norwegian model for relations with...

    Geneva: Swiss authorities are investigating a former Russian agriculture minister over suspected money laundering and have frozen assets in connection with the case,...

  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Online taxi-hailing service Uber will launch in Pakistan by the end of the year, a spokeswoman said on...

  By Ange Aboa and Loucoumane Coulibaly ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara, who won a landslide victory in a weekend poll, said on...

USS Lassen (DDG 82), (R) transits in formation with ROKS Sokcho (PCC 778) during exercise Foal Eagle 2015, in waters east of the...

The Hague: The International Criminal Court said on Wednesday it would not open a full investigation into abuses committed in Honduras after the...

Madrid: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called for a "unified" global response to prevent terrorism that puts respect for human rights at...

Washington: US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Wednesday that this week's international talks on the war in Syria will not find an...

  BRASILIA: Opposition activists handcuffed themselves to a pillar in Brazil's Congress on Wednesday seeking the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff for mismanaging a...