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Muscat: Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte has formed a taskforce to deal with an unfolding hostage crisis in Libya that involves three Filipinos...

Muscat: Convictions in the Philippines related to illegal drug cases filed in courts rose by more than 200 per cent in 2017, according to a senior official...

Ankara: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday Tehran could hold talks with the United States only if Washington proved its trustworthiness after...

Monochique(Portugal): More than 1,150 firefighters battled resurging flames as huge fires swept the forested hills of Portugal's southern Algarve...

Washington: The Trump administration expects economic sanctions that it is re-imposing on Iran this week to further cripple the Iranian economy and will...

Brussels: The European Union vowed on Monday to counter US President Donald Trump's renewal of sanctions on Iran, in a test of the EU's ability to...

Cairo: A car exploded in central Cairo on Monday after colliding with a microbus, injuring 13 people, the Egyptian health ministry said. Reuters reporters...

Baghdad: Iraq's election commission said on Monday it had completed a manual recount of May's parliamentary election but was forced to cut the...

Yangon: A Myanmar court heard defence witnesses on Monday vouch for the integrity of two Reuters journalists accused of obtaining secret state documents and...

Juba: A peace deal in South Sudan has revived hope not just that the guns will stop firing but that economic stability can return. Since war broke out in...