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Beijing: China has shown it is a strong pillar of an open world and multilateralism by hosting the Belt and Road Forum for...

Lagos: Suffering from rampant inflation, stalled investment and mass layoffs, Nigeria is still gripped by one of the worst economic crises in its...

Beijing :Chinese President Xi Jinping called Sunday for closer cooperation among countries across Asia and Europe in areas from anti-terrorism to finance, as...

Beijing: China called for "restraint" after North Korea's latest missile test on Sunday, warning against ramping up tensions in the region. The missile...

Beijing: Close neighbour India skipped China's mega Belt and Road Forum which began here on Sunday, signalling its strong opposition to the multi-million...

Kathmandu:  Nearly five million Nepalis on Sunday are voting in the first phase of the much awaited local elections taking place for the...

Cairo: Egyptian President Sisi received on Saturday from Saudi King Salman an invitation to participate in the US-Arab Islamic summit that will be...

Paris: Independent-centrist Emmanuel Macron will be sworn-in as the 25th President of France following his landslide 66 per cent victory against far-Right National...

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said Indira Gandhi was still the "most acceptable ruler" of the country and hailed the late...

New Delhi: India no longer needs international cooperation to decarbonise itself and needs to pressure countries to remain ambitious, including wealthier countries that...

New Delhi: India on Saturday refused to be a part of China's One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative citing its objections to the...

Jerusalem:  A Jordanian man stabbed and wounded an Israeli officer in annexed east Jerusalem on Saturday before being shot dead, police said. The...

SARAJEVO:  Five people, including three children, were killed in Bosnia on Saturday when a light aircraft they were travelling in crashed near the...

Paris:  French president-elect Emmanuel Macron met party supporters Saturday on the eve of his inauguration and told candidates contesting key parliamentary elections next...

WASHINGTON/LYNCHBURG, Va.: President Donald Trump said on Saturday he will move quickly to nominate a new FBI director, after he sparked a political...

ABIDJAN: Mutinous soldiers in Ivory Coast shot three people on Saturday and cut off access to the second largest city, Bouake, as a...

Tabqa, Syria:   When Dalal Ahmad heard that the fighters who expelled the Islamic State group from the Syrian town of Tabqa were distributing...

London:  Cyber security experts scrambled Saturday to contain the impact of an unprecedented global cyber-attack that hit Russia's banks, British hospitals, FedEx and...