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Moscow: Vladimir Putin was sworn in for another six years as Russian president on Monday, buoyed by popular support but weighed down too by a costly...

Cairo: The last member of the military council that ruled Egypt after army officers overthrew the monarchy more than six decades ago died on Sunday, a...

Lahore: Pakistan's Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was wounded in an apparent assassination attempt on Sunday, officials said, an incident likely to...

Bhubaneswar: Police have arrested 22 people in eastern India in three separate rape cases involving teenage girls, officials said on Sunday, as grisly new...

Rome: The leader of Italy's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, Luigi Di Maio, on Sunday made a last-ditch offer to the far-right League in a bid to...

Dubai: President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday Iran had plans to respond to any move by US President Donald Trump on the 2015 nuclear agreement and the...

Kabul: An explosion at a mosque in the eastern Afghan province of Khost on Sunday killed at least 13 people and wounded 31 and the casualty total may rise,...

Baghdad: The Iraqi air force carried out a new strike on an IS position inside Syria, Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi's office said in a statement on...

Gaza: Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians who tried to cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the military said. "Troops fired...

Tunis: Tunisians voted on Sunday in their first free municipal elections, another step in a democratic transition that has become marred by disappointment...