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New Delhi: Dense fog shrouded parts of the north Indian states of Punjab and Haryana on Wednesday where five persons died in separate mishaps due to poor...

AMSTERDAM: A priceless collection of gold artifacts from Crimea that was on loan to a Dutch museum when Russia seized the peninsula must be returned to...

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...