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Kirkuk: Police deployed overnight in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk to prevent any outbreak of ethnic violence ahead of a referendum on Kurdish...

Naypyitaw: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi condemned on Tuesday human rights violations in Rakhine state and said violators would be brought to book, but...

Ponce (Puerto Rico): Hurricane Maria, the second major storm to hit the Caribbean this month, crept toward the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on...

New Delhi: Veteran BJP leader L. K. Advani has been renominated as chairman of the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. Besides Advani,...

New Delhi: Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh on Monday again warned of demonetisation and "hasty" implementation of GST adversely...

Yangon/ Cox's Bazar( Bangladesh): Rohingya Muslims fleeing a Myanmar military offensive arrived in Bangladesh on Monday with fresh accounts of violence...

United Nations: France on Monday raised the possibility of strengthening the provisions of the international accord on Iran's nuclear programme that...

Beirut: Lebanon's parliament speaker on Monday proposed holding a legislative election before the end of the year, bringing it forward from May...

New Delhi: As his pet 'Clean India' campaign completes three years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to opinion makers across fields...

Baghdad: About 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected IS militants have been moved to a new site north of Mosul, Iraqi authorities confirmed on...