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New Delhi: From academic session 2017-2018, specific benchmarks related to learning levels of students from class I to VIII will be included in the rules...

BANJUL: Gambia's parliament has passed a resolution to allow President Yahya Jammeh to stay in office for another three months, as the veteran leader on...

GENEVA: At least 76 people were killed in Tuesday's accidental Nigerian Air Force strike on a refugee camp and more than 100 were wounded, the...

BAMAKO: At least 47 people including five suicide bombers were killed when a vehicle packed with explosives detonated inside a military camp in the northern...

Bartella (Iraq): Elite Iraqi forces have ousted IS insurgents from all districts of eastern Mosul they were tasked with recapturing, their commanding...

STRASBOURG: The EU leader who will oversee Britain's Brexit negotiations with the bloc hailed Theresa May on Wednesday for echoing Winston Churchill in...

Davos (Switzerland): Iran and Saudi Arabia should be able to work together to help end conflicts in Syria and Yemen, after successfully cooperating over...

GENEVA: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday he is determined to reform the world body and to see a diplomatic "surge" to...

Shumen (Bulgaria): Iran's first two women volleyball players to compete outside the country joined Bulgarian club Shumen this month, a move which has...

BERLIN: Germany expects the International Monetary Fund to participate in Greece's bailout programme, a finance ministry spokeswoman said on Wednesday,...