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Dubai: Yemeni government forces and their Arab allies are massing north and south of the Houthi-held Red Sea port of Hodeidah despite United Nations and aid...

Caracas: Blocking streets with riot shields and using pepper-spray on protesters, Venezuelan security forces impeded an opposition rally in Caracas on...

Johannesburg: President Jacob Zuma said South Africa's fiscal policies will not change and that people should remain calm after its credit rating was...

Hong Kong: A 59.60-carat pink diamond sold for a record $71.2 million in Hong Kong on Tuesday to local jewellers Chow Tai Fook after a five-minute bidding...

New Delhi: India and the UK Tuesday decided to set up a 500 million pound fund, with both governments together investing 240 million pound, to finance clean...

Dubai/Paris: Iran's Aseman Airlines has signed a tentative deal to buy at least 30 Boeing 737 MAX jets, in the first new business with the U.S....

Beirut: Hengameh Shahidi knew the security agents were coming for her. An Iranian journalist and activist, she had been tipped off by contacts close to the...

Istanbul: A German-Turkish journalist whose arrest in Turkey has jolted relations between Ankara and Berlin is doing well in prison but Germany is pushing...

Budapest: Hungary approved a new law in a fast-track procedure on Tuesday that could force a university founded by financier George Soros out of the country...

Erbil (Iraq): The United Nations said on Tuesday it is expanding camps for displaced people around Mosul, as air strikes resumed on IS militant group...