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Washington: US President Donald Trump highlighted his pro-life stance on Twitter as anti-abortion bills continue to be endorsed by lawmakers in the...

Dhaka: A total of 270,348 Rohingya refugees have been registered in the settlements of Bangladesh’s southern Cox’s Bazar district, the UN Refugee Agency...

Vancouver: The number of people seeking asylum in Canada more than tripled over a two-year period and reached a monthly peak in August 2017 when thousands...

Muscat: From June 1, visitors to the Republic of Tanzania will no longer be able to bring plastic bags into the country, the Tanzanian Government has...

New Delhi: On the eve of the seventh and final phase of voting in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended campaigning for the...

Manila: The Philippines has recalled its ambassador to Canada in an escalating row over the disposal of waste wrongly labelled as recyclable. The...

Riyadh: The US Department of State has ordered all of its non-emergency staff in Iraq to leave the country, the US Embassy in Baghdad announced. In a...

Dhaka: Police in Bangladesh have stopped dozens of Rohingya refugees from being trafficked to Malaysia, detaining up to 81 people waiting to be taken...

London: The UK's parliament will have a chance to vote on the country's withdrawal agreement from the EU in the first week of June, a Downing Street...

Cairo: Sudan's military rulers and protest leaders on Wednesday agreed on a three-year transition period for the transfer of power to a full civilian...