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United Nations: Former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Guterres is poised to be the next United Nations Secretary-General and is expected to be formally...

Stockholm/London: A trio of European scientists has won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing molecular machines that could one day be injected...

Port-au-Prince/Guantanamo (Cuba): Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in almost a decade, powered toward the Bahamas and Florida's eastern...

New Delhi: The Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday apprehended nine Pakistani fishermen after their boat entered a creek area in the west Indian state...

New Delhi: India is trying to hasten a deal with the United States to buy Predator drone aircraft for military surveillance, one of several defence and...

Baghdad/Ankara: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi has warned Turkey that it risks triggering a regional war by keeping troops in Iraq, as each summoned...

Gaza: Israeli aircraft attacked Palestinian fighters' targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, wounding at least one person, witnesses said, after a...

Geneva: Analysis of satellite imagery of a deadly attack on an aid convoy in Syria last month showed that it was an air strike, a UN expert said on...

Kiev: Ukraine warned its citizens on Wednesday against travelling to Russia, saying they were at risk following an increase in harassment and detentions of...

Rome: More than 4,650 migrants were saved on Tuesday off the Libyan coast and 28 bodies recovered, bringing the total number of people rescued in the last...