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Hong Kong: A 59.60-carat pink diamond sold for a record $71.2 million in Hong Kong on Tuesday to local jewellers Chow Tai Fook after a five-minute bidding...

New Delhi: India and the UK Tuesday decided to set up a 500 million pound fund, with both governments together investing 240 million pound, to finance clean...

Dubai/Paris: Iran's Aseman Airlines has signed a tentative deal to buy at least 30 Boeing 737 MAX jets, in the first new business with the U.S....

Beirut: Hengameh Shahidi knew the security agents were coming for her. An Iranian journalist and activist, she had been tipped off by contacts close to the...

Istanbul: A German-Turkish journalist whose arrest in Turkey has jolted relations between Ankara and Berlin is doing well in prison but Germany is pushing...

Budapest: Hungary approved a new law in a fast-track procedure on Tuesday that could force a university founded by financier George Soros out of the country...

Erbil (Iraq): The United Nations said on Tuesday it is expanding camps for displaced people around Mosul, as air strikes resumed on IS militant group...

New Jersey: A New Jersey teen pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to terrorists in what media called an ISIS-inspired effort to kill...

Beirut: A suspected gas attack, believed to be by Syrian government jets, killed at least 58 people including 11 children under the age of eight in the...