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Beirut: The Syrian army has restored control over all areas surrounding the capital Damascus, it said on Monday, for the first time since early in the...

Colombo: Heavy monsoon rains in Sri Lanka have killed five people, prompting authorities to warn against landslides and floods in low-lying areas after...

Washington: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday threatened to impose the "strongest sanctions in history" against Iran if it did not accept a...

Berlin: Germany's Angela Merkel faces a delicate diplomatic balancing act when she travels to China this week on a visit clouded by US President Donald...

Southern Badia(Iraq): On a former battlefield of the 1991 Gulf War, deep in Iraq's southern desert, a Kuwaiti investor is looking to grow 100,000 date...

London: A vaccination campaign aimed at beating an outbreak of Ebola in Congo began on Monday in the port city of Mbandaka, where four cases of the deadly...

Madrid: Spain acted to maintain direct rule on Catalonia on Monday after the government objected to the choice of councillors by fervent separatist leader...

Santa Fe (Texas): The teenage boy charged with murdering eight students and two teachers during a gun rampage at a Houston-area high school on Friday...

Manila: The Philippines expressed "serious concerns" over the presence of China's strategic bombers in the disputed South China Sea and its...

Pahoa (Hawaii): Hawaii faced a new hazard on Sunday as lava flows from Kilauea's volcanic eruption could produce clouds of acid fumes, steam and...