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Lahore: The kidnapped son of a former Pakistani prime minister has been rescued in Afghanistan in a joint operation by Afghan and U.S. forces, three years...

Washington: An air strike by a US-led coalition killed a senior IS militant in Iraq last week, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday. The strike on May 6...

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday questioned former Indian Air Force Chief S. P. Tyagi and two others in connection with...

New Delhi: Congress on Monday created a storm in Parliament and disrupted proceedings over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's charge at a poll rally that an...

Nainital/New Delhi: Sacked chief minister Harish Rawat on Monday got a major boost ahead of the confidence vote in the Uttarakhand Assembly on Tuesday with...

Islamabad: Pakistan must speed up reform of the energy sector and bring more women into the labour force if it wants to quicken economic growth that lags...

Pyongyang: North Korea said it would strengthen its defensive nuclear weapons capability, the official KCNA news agency reported on Monday, a decision...

Cape Canaveral: Tiny Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet, sailed across the face of the sun on Monday, a celestial dance that occurs about once...

Beirut: A list backed by mainstream Lebanese parties has won Beirut municipality elections, its leader said early on Monday, seeing off a challenge by an...

Beirut/Paris: Syrian government forces and their allies fought insurgents near Aleppo on Monday and jets carried out raids around a nearby town seized by...