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Yangon: Myanmar's new president has pardoned 83 prisoners held for political crimes, officials said on Sunday, just weeks after the first government in...

Tokyo: Japanese rescue teams on Sunday scoured the splintered remains of buildings destroyed by a series of deadly earthquakes in southern Japan as time ran...

Kunduz(Afghanistan): Afghan forces fought back a renewed series of attacks on Kunduz, killing dozens of Taliban fighters, officials said on Sunday as...

Manta (Ecuador): The death toll from Ecuador's biggest earthquake in decades soared to at least 235 on Sunday as rescuers using tractors and bare hands...

Brasilia: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff hunkered down at her residence on Saturday for last-minute negotiations with wavering lawmakers in an effort to...

Ankara: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday his country and neighboring Iran must work together to narrow their differences in order to tackle...

Dubai/Brussels: Iran, seeking European leverage to secure better terms from the United States following last year's nuclear deal, asked the European...

Geneva: The United Nation's envoy to Syria sounded out the opposition at talks in Geneva on the idea that President Bashar Al Assad could stay on in...

Beirut: President Francois Hollande said on Saturday that France would provide immediate additional military aid to Lebanon, and urged politicians to end a...

Baghdad: Iraq's cleric Moqtada Al Sadr said on Saturday he would re-start protests in 72 hours if the nation's leaders failed to vote on a...