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Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives look set to suffer a second electoral blow in two weeks in a Berlin city vote on Sunday as...

Srinagar: Militants attacked an Indian army brigade headquarters near the de factor border with Pakistan on Sunday, killing 17 soldiers in one of the most...

BEIRUT: At least 80 Syrian soldiers were killed in a US-led coalition air strike at an army position near Deir Al Zor airport on Saturday, the Syrian...

Margarita Island (Venezuela): Vice President Hamid Ansari on Saturday held talks with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on a host of issues of mutual...

Manila: A Norwegian man held hostage by the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group in the southern Philippines since September last year was freed on Saturday,...

PARIS/CAIRO: French investigators who found trace levels of the explosive material TNT on debris of an EgyptAir plane that crashed in May were prevented...

Beirut/Moscow: Russia and Syrian rebels cast doubt over the prospects for an increasingly shaky five-day-old ceasefire on Saturday, with Moscow saying the...

Shanghai: China is bracing for its second typhoon in a week after government raised their alert to "orange" for Typhoon Malakas on Saturday, just...

PARIS: Parts of central Paris were cordoned off on Saturday after a false alarm triggered a major security operation, French police said. French government...

Bratislava: Ukraine is doing less than Russia to meet its obligations under the Minsk peace plan, Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico said on...