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Brussels: Bosnia formally applied for membership of the European Union on Monday, although Brussels says it must carry out a series of reforms before the...

Prague/Budapest: About two out of three Czechs oppose taking in refugees from war zones, according to an opinion poll published on Monday, reflecting...

Karachi/Islamabad: More than 100,000 health workers fanned out across Pakistan on Monday, stepping up a drive to eliminate the polio virus this year from...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking a CBI probe into the 2002 hit-and-run case on the ground that corrupt means have been...

Peshawar: The university in northwest Pakistan where Taliban gunmen killed at least 20 people last month reopened for classes on Monday with teachers - but...

Thiruvananthapuram: Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan on Monday said neither RBI nor the government intends to "undervalue" the rupee to pursue...

Kiev/Beirut: Turkey warned Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria on Monday they would face the "harshest reaction" if they tried to capture a...

Amsterdam: IS militants attacked Kurdish forces in Iraq with mustard gas last year, in the first known use of chemical weapons in Iraq since the fall of...

Tunis: A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will visit Tunisia on Thursday to begin talks on a new credit programme likely to be worth at...

Skhirat (Morocco): Libya's Presidential Council named a revised lineup late on Sunday for a unity government under a United Nations-backed plan aimed at...