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Brazzaville: Gunbattles rocked the capital of the Congo Republic on Monday, shattering a relative calm that had followed President Denis Sassou...

Baku/Yerevan: Armenia's president warned on Monday that an outbreak of violence in breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh risked spiralling into all-out war after a...

Klerksdorp (South Africa): South Africa will decide this month whether to push to end a global ban on buying and selling rhino horn, a move that could...

New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University and Hyderabad university, which have been at the centre of massive rows recently, top the list of central varsities...

Lima (Peru): Peru's presidential front-runner Keiko Fujimori signed a pledge at a debate on Sunday committing her to avoiding the authoritarian ways of...

Chester (Philadelphia): A locomotive on an Amtrak train carrying about 330 passengers derailed when it hit a backhoe south of Philadelphia on Sunday,...

New Delhi: Amid reports of some Indians having unaccounted wealth in tax havens, Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said those who did not take...

Jammu: Indian-administered-Kashmir got its first woman chief minister on Monday in Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti who was...

Phnom Penh: Cambodia's parliament endorsed a new 26-member cabinet on Monday in a rare shuffle of an ageing leadership as Prime Minister Hun Sen...

Manila: About 8,000 US and Filipino troops began annual military exercises on Monday against a backdrop of tension over China's greater assertiveness in...