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Kabul: Government forces have launched operations against the Taliban in 18 provinces of Afghanistan as fighting has intensified since the start of the...

Washington/Hong Kong: China has denied a request for a US carrier strike group led by the USS John C. Stennis to visit to Hong Kong, the US Defence...

Nairobi: Rescue workers raced on Saturday to save more residents from the rubble of a six-storey building in Nairobi after it collapsed overnight following...

Nairobi: Kenya's president set fire to thousands of elephant tusks and rhino horns on Saturday, destroying a stockpile that would have been worth a...

Cairo: Egypt put on trial 237 activists arrested for protesting against President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, judicial sources said on Saturday, the first court...

Beirut: Nearly 30 air strikes hit rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Saturday as a temporary "calm" declared by Syria's military took effect around...

New Delhi: Congress on Saturday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issue of his educational qualification saying his government was a...

Chennai: Targeting Congress leadership on the AgustaWestland bribery controversy, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union Minister Ravi Shankar...

New Delhi: The fifth and penultimate phase of West Assembly polls in 53 constituencies on Saturday recorded a voter turnout of 78.25 per cent and polling...

Baghdad: Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and bullets into the air in an effort to stop more supporters of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr from entering...