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Chennai: Speculation was rife about AIADMK General Secretary V. K. Sasikala taking charge as chief minister of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday but there was no...

Jammu: Around 300 passengers, stranded at the Jammu bus stand due to the closure of Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in view of snowfall, on Monday held...

London: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to Britain to join new sanctions against Iran as he met his British counterpart Theresa May in...

Cairo: Remittances from expatriate Egyptians rose 11.8 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2016, the central bank said on Monday, with most of the increase...

Munisch/Berlin: Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and their Bavarian allies agreed to support her candidacy for elections pitting her against...

Manila: Philippine Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Regina Lopez will not reconsider her decision to shut down 23 of the country's 41 mines,...

Beirut: Syrian government forces advanced on the northern IS-held city of Al Bab on Monday, cutting off the last supply route that connects it to militant...

Mosul: The flyblown corpses of IS militants have been rotting along a main street in north Mosul for two weeks, a health risk for passersby. Suicide...

Astana: Experts from Russia, Turkey, Iran and the United Nations held a technical meeting in the Kazakh capital on Monday to discuss the implementation of...

Lagos: Hundreds of Nigerians marched through the streets of Lagos calling for a change of government on Monday, a rare show of public dissent that reflected...