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Maria, the mother of 18-year-old Ismael who was arrested in Piera on suspicion of having links to Islamic militant activities, weeps at their...

COLOMBO: A lawyer for the Maldives' jailed former president was stabbed in the islands' capital ahead of a visit by his international legal...

Migrants march along the highway towards the border with Austria, out of Budapest, Hungary, yesterday. Budapest: A mass of desperate refugees stranded at...

Prime Minister and Secretary-General of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD), Abdelilah Benkirane, casts his vote in the local elections at a...

Supporters of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) carry flags and a broom stick during a protest in Beirut yesterday to support a leading...

A young girl holds up a picture of German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside Keleti station in Budapest yesterday.   ROSZKE: Migrants in Hungary, many...

Athens: Greece’s former leader Alexis Tsipras has opened the door to a coalition with rivals on the left should his Syriza party fail...

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia speaks with US President Barack Obama during their meeting...

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (right) takes oath as he is sworn in as minister of policy planning and economic affairs in...

Abuja: Over 2.1 million people are internally displaced in northeast Nigeria after a spike in a six-year insurgency by the Boko Haram group,...

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday lauded the contribution of the Czech people during World War II in a meeting with the country’s...

KABUL: Rahim Khan’s return to Afghanistan 28 years after fleeing to Pakistan was not the homecoming he had dreamed of. The 60-year-old is...

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani (centre) poses for a photograph with foreign delegation at the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference of Afghanistan in Kabul, yesterday.

Police wields baton-charge at protesting members of the Nishad community in Patnaa, yesterday.   Patna: At least 50 people, including 12 police officers, were...

  New Delhi: The Delhi High Court yesterday asked New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to apprise it on what basis it decided to change...

New Delhi: Nestle India Chief Suresh Narayanan yesterday said the Indian arm of the company is trying to get Maggi noodles back into...

  New Delhi: “I am just your Mukherjee sir. I am not the president of India or a politician now. I would be happy...

New Delhi: Rejecting criticism that it was acting like a "remote control", the RSS said yesterday that the Narendra Modi government was on...