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ROME: Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni won the backing of the fragmented Senate on Wednesday, allowing his government to formally take office as a new...

WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday named former Texas Governor Rick Perry to head the US Department of Energy, handing the job to a...

LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May condemned as "appalling" a rail strike that left hundreds of thousands of London commuters facing a...

Washington: China appears to have installed weapons, including anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems, on all seven of the artificial islands it has built...

Aleppo (Syria)/Beirut: Plans to evacuate rebel districts of Aleppo stalled on Wednesday as more fighting rocked the city and insurgents appeared to have...

Geneva: World powers can stop a "Rwanda-like" genocide in South Sudan if they immediately deploy a 4,000-strong protection force across the...

Manila: Ministers in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's cabinet on Wednesday said he was in good health, after the leader talked about ailments...

Manila: The Philippines has cancelled a trip next year by the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings to look into the rising death toll in its war...

Mumbai: Over Rs 700 million in cash, in both old and new notes, and more than 170kg gold have been seized from passengers at various airports of the country...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on being named in the Global Thinkers of 2016...