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Paris: Prominent Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan, a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Oxford, has been taken into custody by French police...

Hong Kong: Lawmakers in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong voted on Wednesday to ban ivory sales in the world's largest ivory retail market, a move wildlife...

Beijing: China's relations with Britain will remain unchanged through Brexit, Premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday, as British Prime Minister Theresa...

Aden: Three days of deadly clashes between southern Yemeni separatists and an internationally recognised government based in the port of Aden subsided on...

Manila: The U.S. government is "cautiously optimistic" on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs after it saw a decline in...

Muscat: An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 shook the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday morning but there were no immediate reports of any damage or...

Washington: Branding North Korea’s leadership "depraved,” President Donald Trump told Americans on Tuesday that Pyongyang’s pursuit of nuclear...

Geneva: Almost a dozen countries have agreed to advance their annual contributions to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees to help it plug a major...

Amman: Participants at a Syrian peace conference in Russia called for respect for the country's territorial integrity and said the Syrian people alone...

Muscat: India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) officially scrapped plans to introduce orange coloured passport jackets for some migrant workers...