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Colombo: Two international credit rating agencies downgraded Sri Lanka by one notch on Tuesday following almost six weeks of political crisis. Fitch said it...

Johannesburg: South Africa broke free of recession on Tuesday when it reported GDP growth of 2.2 per cent for the third quarter, the statistics authority...

Nablus: A Palestinian was killed during a clash with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank early on Tuesday, Palestinian official media and a medical...

Geneva: The UN warned on Tuesday of a "severe increase" in Yemen's hunger rate and cautioned the situation would deteriorate further in 2019,...

London: British MPs on Tuesday begin debating a highly contentious Brexit deal amid a row over the government's refusal to publish its legal advice, as...

Wamena(Indonesia): An Indonesian soldier was killed while investigating reports that more than two dozen construction workers were shot dead by separatist...

Paris(France): The French government announced on Tuesday that it would suspend planned increases in fuel taxes for six months in a bid to quell fierce...

New Delhi: India's environmental watchdog has slapped New Delhi's government with a $3.5 million fine for failing to enforce rules to reduce smog in...

Muscat: Aamir Mehmood Kiani, Pakistan’s Minister for National Health Services, has announced that a health insurance scheme that will provide free...

Malaysia: Three people were killed and 24 injured on Tuesday when a powerful explosion rocked a shopping mall in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, but a fire...