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Paris: France's financial prosecutor on Wednesday sought a three-year jail term for former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac, who was forced to quit...

New Delhi: India has declared itself free from the highly contagious avian influenza (H5N1) or bird flu even as it stressed the need for continued...

Strasbourg: The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, sought on Wednesday to rally support for the European Union, saying the bloc...

Seoul: North Korea will have enough material for about 20 nuclear bombs by the end of this year, with ramped-up uranium enrichment facilities and an...

New Delhi: Five more deaths from chikungunya complications were reported on Wednesday at a private hospital in Delhi, taking to 10 the number of fatalities...

Harare: Zimbabwe's government said it had dropped plans to cut public sector jobs and bonuses less than a week after they were announced, as activists...

Beijing: China will launch its second experimental space laboratory late on Thursday and another manned space mission next month, the government said, part...

Wukan (China): Residents of a Chinese village once seen as a cradle of grassroots democracy were in shock on Wednesday after a "wild crackdown" by...

Jakarta: Indonesia's highest Islamic council has issued a fatwa on burning land and forests, a government official said on Wednesday, in an effort to...

Jakarta: Indonesia will resume land reclamation that will help prevent Jakarta from sinking below sea level, a cabinet minister said, five months after work...