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A file photo of US Ambassador Glyn T. Davies. AFP   Bangkok: The US Ambassador to Thailand is facing a police investigation for royal...

  GENEVA:  A United Nations rights watchdog called on China on Wednesday to halt torture of detainees that it said remains rife in police...

  Ulan Bator: The United Nations' top human rights official praised Mongolia Wednesday for abolishing the death penalty, after the sparsely populated Asian country...

Afghan security forces stand guard at the entrance gate of Kandahar Airport where Taliban stormed on late Tuesday. Kandahar: At least 37 people...

    Iraqi security forces stand guard with their military vehicle outside the Turkish embassy in Baghdad. REUTERS   Baghdad: A suicide bomber killed at least...

A file photo of Mohammad Khatami.   Tehran: An Iranian newspaper editor who defied a national reporting ban on former president Mohammad Khatami hit...

Geneva: More than 9,000 people have been killed since the conflict in Ukraine began, the United Nations said Wednesday, warning that even though...

Swiss People's Party (SVP) President Toni Brunner (L) congratulates newly elected Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin (L) during the ministerial elections in the Swiss...

File pic for representation only   Baghdad: Only 30 percent of Russian air strikes in Syria target the Islamic State group while the rest...

Paramilitary policemen wearing masks march following a flag-raising ceremony amid heavy smog at Tiananmen Square, after the city issued its first ever "red...

  ANKARA: A bomb blast killed one policemen on Wednesday in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan near the Pakistan border, a local police official...

Jakarta, Indonesia: A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia on Wednesday sparking panic, officials said, adding that there was no...

Syrians and members of the Syrian government forces gather as hundreds of civilians and Syrian rebel forces began evacuating the last opposition-held district...

Afghan President, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani (C) walks with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (R), upon his arrival in Islamabad, Pakistan, 09 December 2015....

Tibetan spiritual leader, The Dalai Lama gestures as he addresses the gathering during the foundation stone laying ceremony of the Nimhans Integrated Centre...

Japanese police officers stand guard in front of the Kojimachi Police Station in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, where a South Korean man was in...

A file photo shows containers being unloaded from a cargo ship at a port in Rizhao, east China's Shandong province. AFP   BEIJING: China...

A file photo of J. K. Rowling. (Reuters)   London: The British government and "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling on Tuesday condemned comments by...