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Islamabad: Pakistan's lower house of parliament has passed a landmark bill giving its small Hindu minority the right to register marriages, the last...

Cartagena (Colombia): Colombia's center-right government and the Marxist FARC rebel group signed a peace deal on Monday to end a half-century war that...

Taipei: The third typhoon to hit Taiwan this month killed at least four people and injured hundreds on Tuesday, knocking down trees and cutting power to...

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Tuesday for sick and wounded people in the embattled eastern part of the Syrian city of Aleppo to be...

London: Brexit will be more painful for the rest of Europe than for Britain which could emerge stronger and better off than its European neighbours, Mathias...

United Nations: India on Monday asked the global community to urgently adopt a long-pending global treaty on terrorism as well as implement the UN Security...

HOUSTON: A troubled lawyer opened fire on morning commuters in Houston on Monday, injuring at least nine people before being fatally shot by police,...

ROME: A referendum over Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's flagship constitutional reform will be held on December 4, a government official said on Monday,...

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa saw his chances of becoming the country's next leader increase on Monday when the...

MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday he would visit Russia and China this year to chart an independent foreign policy and "open...