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Beijing: China will banish the "ghosts" of poverty, Chinese President Xi Jinping told villagers in a poor southwestern part of the country during...

London: All flights to and from London's City Airport were cancelled on Monday after an unexploded World War Two bomb was discovered in the River Thames...

Kuwait: Rebuilding Iraq after three years of war with IS will cost more than $88 billion, with housing a particularly urgent priority, Iraqi officials told...

Seoul: The United States may be looking more favourably at diplomatic engagement with North Korea, possibly holding dialogue, as South Korea pushes forward...

Moscow: Emergency workers in Russia searched snow-covered fields outside Moscow on Monday, looking for body fragments and clues after a fatal plane crash a...

Seoul: North Korea's delegation sent to the Winter Olympics held "frank and candid" talks with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the North...

Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday defended "painful" concessions she has made to the Social Democrats (SPD) to secure a fourth...

Ankara: Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party elected new leaders on Sunday, at a congress that party officials said authorities had tried to stop by...

Moscow: A Russian passenger plane crashed near Moscow after take-off on Sunday and the Kremlin said all 71 people on board were feared dead. It was not...

Ankara: Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied on Sunday to mark the anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, denouncing the United States and...