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Islamabad: Former Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif was sentenced to seven years in prison for corruption on Monday, state media reported, the latest conviction...

Yangon: Lawyers lodged an appeal on Monday to free two Reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on Myanmar's Rohingya crisis, decrying the...

Washington: Donald Trump on Sunday announced he will replace Defence Secretary Jim Mattis with his deputy Patrick Shanahan, speeding up the Pentagon...

Khartoum:Fresh protests against bread price hikes in Sudan hit two cities Sunday, as riot police ensured an uneasy calm in the capital Khartoum five days...

Beirut: Hundreds of Lebanese took to the streets Sunday in Beirut to protest rampant corruption and poor living conditions, as anger mounts over political...

Gaza City: Hamas on Sunday denounced Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's plan to dissolve the largely defunct Palestinian parliament that it controls,...

Sanaa:The head of the UN team tasked with monitoring a fragile ceasefire in Yemen's port city of Hodeida arrived in the rebel-held capital Sanaa on...

Azaz(Syria): Residents and fighters in territory held by pro-Turkish rebels in northern Syria cautiously welcomed Washington's decision to pull out...

Carita(Indonesia): A volcano-triggered tsunami has left at least 222 people dead and hundreds more injured after slamming without warning into beaches...

Kabul: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday replaced two of the country's top security chiefs with staunch anti-Taliban officials, in a major...