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Seoul: South Korean President Park Geun-hye has retained a lawyer ahead of questioning by prosecutors investigating a favours scandal engulfing her...

New Delhi: Grappling with unending queues and frayed tempers in banks and to check operation of syndicates, government on Tuesday decided to introduce a...

Erbil (Iraq): A mixed Kurdish and Yazidi armed force said on Monday it had dislodged IS militants from five Yazidi villages west of Mosul in an offensive...

Brussels: The European Union (EU) said on Monday it would keep pushing to restore ties with Iran in line with last year's nuclear deal, which US...

Washington: Democrats, civil rights groups and even some Republicans slammed U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday over his choice of right-wing...

Beirut: Air strikes hit two hospitals in rebel-held territory west of the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday, and a number of patients and medics...

London:Rich countries must close all their coal-fired power plants by 2030 to have a chance of holding global warming to tolerable levels, a report from an...

JOHANNESBURG: South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius has been moved to a prison better suited to his rehabilitation while serving a six...

BRUSSELS: France and Germany looked set to win support on Monday for a European defence plan that US President-elect Donald Trump has made more urgent by...

LONDON: British lawmaker Jo Cox, who was killed in the street shortly before the June 23 referendum on EU membership, died in a pre-meditated murder carried...