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Kabul: Pressure is building on the Taliban to respond to President Ashraf Ghani’s offer for peace talks, in the face of growing demands for an end to the...

Washington: White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday he believed the bulk of North Korea’s weapons programmes could be dismantled...

Mumbai: Eleven members of a family were found dead in India's capital on Sunday, most of them hanging from the ceiling of their home, blindfolded and...

Dubai: The United Arab Emirates said on Sunday it had halted its military campaign against the Iran-aligned Houthis for control of Yemen's main port...

Chiang Rai: Thai navy divers had to still navigate their way through three kilometres (nearly 2 miles) of dark, flooded cave passages on Sunday to reach the...

Dubai: US economic pressure on Iran is intended to turn Iranians against their government, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying on...

Cairo: President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi said on Saturday Egypt was on the "right track" to rebuild its economy after years of instability that had...

Baghdad: Iraq will begin a manual recount of votes on Tuesday from a May parliamentary election clouded by allegations of fraud, a step towards the...

Amman/Beirut: A string of Syrian rebel-held towns and villages accepted government rule on Saturday as insurgent lines collapsed in parts of the southwest...

Cairo: An Egyptian court on Saturday delayed a final ruling in a case against 739 people involved in a 2013 sit-in protest that was broken up by security...