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Sydney: Britain and Australia urged China on Thursday to do more to persuade North Korea to drop its nuclear and missile programmes. Earlier this month...

Washington: U.S. Senate Republicans begin their final push on Thursday to unravel Obamacare, seeking to wrap up their seven-year offensive against former...

Washington: The Trump administration imposed sanctions on 13 senior officials of Venezuela's government, military and state oil company PDVSA on...

Brussels: The European Commission said on Wednesday it would launch legal action against Poland over an overhaul of its judiciary that it says undermines...

Misrata (Libya): Libya forces allied with UN-backed government who last year defeated IS in Sirte are increasing patrols to stop the militants regrouping...

Rome: Libya's Tripoli-based government has invited Italian war ships into its territorial waters to support the fight against human trafficking, Italian...

London: Cladding from six British student accommodations operated by Unite Group Plc have failed fire tests prompted by London's deadly Grenfell Tower...

New Delhi: Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of India's big northern state Bihar and once seen as a potential challenger to Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...

Moscow/Brussels: Russia warned it was edging closer to retaliation against Washington after the House of Representatives backed new U.S. sanctions on...

Juroud Arsal (Lebanon): The barren, rocky hilltops that form Hezbollah's new front line with militants at the Syrian-Lebanese border were tough to...