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Tokyo/Istanbul: A Japanese journalist held hostage by militants after being captured in Syria three years ago has been released and would be brought home as...

Islamabad: Pakistan still plans to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) despite a Saudi Arabian offer of a $6 billion rescue package,...

New Delhi: India's government on Wednesday ordered a probe at the country's top crime fighting bureau after its two senior officers accused each...

Khartoum: Sudan's Prime Minister Moataz Moussa announced to parliament on Wednesday a 15-month emergency economic-reform plan, including "further...

New Delhi: India's capital is set for a "deadly cocktail" of pollution in coming weeks, a senior government official said, as air quality in...

Mazatlan, Mexico: Hurricane Willa's fierce winds began to ease as the powerful storm barreled inland over Mexico early on Wednesday, leaving power...

Bangkok: Philippine rights groups said on Wednesday they had begun investigating the killings of nine farmers who had occupied part of a sugar plantation,...

Islamabad: Saudi Arabia has agreed to give Pakistan $3 billion in foreign currency support for a year and a further loan worth up to $3 billion in deferred...

Ramallah(West Bank): Security forces of the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and Gaza's Hamas group routinely arrest and torture critics and...

Geneva: The UN Human Rights Committee said on Tuesday that France's ban on the niqab, the full-body veil, was a violation of human rights and called on...