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Berlin: A knife-edge vote Friday will determine Angela Merkel's successor as head of her party after 18 years at the helm, with the German...

Kuala Lumpur: Fugitive Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho is facing new charges of laundering more than $1.0 billion, in a massive corruption scandal...

Muscat: An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale was recorded in the northern part of the Arabian sea off Pakistan’s coast today (December 5,...

London: Britain's government suffered a stinging rebuke from MPs ahead of Tuesday's momentous Brexit debate, exposing Prime Minister Theresa...

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...