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Beijing: For centuries, owning the flat-faced Pekingese dog was a luxury to be enjoyed only by China's royal family. After years of turmoil and the 1911...

Mumbai/New Delhi: India's government has said the $1.77 billion fraud at state-run Punjab National Bank was a "manifestation of supervisory...

Washington: US President Donald Trump blasted media mogul Oprah Winfrey on Twitter on Sunday night over a segment on CBS's 60 Minutes program and again...

Bangkok: Fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra met lawmakers from his Puea Thai Party in Hong Kong where he called for party unity ahead of...

Moscow: The Kremlin said on Monday that US charges against 13 Russians and three Russian companies accused of meddling in the 2016 US presidential election...

Washington/Paris/Munich: The United States has sketched out a path under which three key European allies would simply commit to try to improve the Iran...

Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel put forward on Monday her close ally Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, premier of the tiny western state of Saarland, to...

Riga: Latvia's anti-corruption authority said on Monday it had detained central bank governor Ilmars Rimsevics over the weekend for demanding a...

London: Wreckage of the Iranian plane that crashed with 65 people on board on Sunday was found in central Iran, state media reported. The deputy governor of...

(Adds details) By Devidutta Tripathy and Aditya Kalra MUMBAI/NEW DELHI, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Indian investigators closed down a branch of a state-run bank...