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Gaza: Schools, clinics and food distribution centres in the Gaza Strip were closed on Monday due to a one-day strike by the 13,000 employees of the United...

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May came under further pressure over her Brexit blueprint on Monday, with members of the upper house of parliament...

Prague: Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis will negotiate with the Social Democrats and the Communists to form a new government after parliament rejected his...

Hong Kong: A group of Hong Kong lawyers on Monday condemned a ban on a democracy activist by the territory's government to prevent her from contesting a...

Geneva: More than 100,000 Rohingya refugees huddled in squalid, muddy camps in Bangladesh will be in grave danger from landslides when the mid-year monsoon...

Beijing: Unrelenting risks of "terror" and separatist activity in China's far western region of Xinjiang require a prolonged security...

Manila: Police in the Philippines on Monday resumed President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, making visits to the homes of users and dealers to...

Muscat: The word 'Aadhaar' has been chosen by Oxford Dictionaries as its first 'Hindi Word of the Year'. In November, 2017, Oxford...

Wellington: New Zealand military planes on Monday were scouring a section of the Pacific Ocean for more survivors from a missing ferry after eight people...

Kabul: Militants on Monday raided a military academy in Kabul, the Afghan capital, killing 11 soldiers, the fourth major attack in a spate of violence over...