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Sydney: Nearly 2,000 asylum seekers held in a remote detention centre in Papua New Guinea for more than two years will receive A$70 million ($53 million) in...

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's younger brother and Punjab chief minister has been summoned by a Joint Investigation Team probing the...

Beijing: About a hundred protesters clashed on Wednesday with police in downtown Beijing after authorities abruptly reassigned their children to a school in...

London: Singer Ariana Grande will be getting honorary citizenship of Manchester under plans put forward by the city council. The council is proposing a...

Moscow: Police in Moscow used force to break up a protest outside parliament against a controversial housing resettlement programme and detained about a...

Helsinki: The Finnish Security Intelligence Service (Supo) raised its threat level on Wednesday, saying it had become aware of more serious...

Beirut: Human Rights Watch expressed concern on Wednesday about the use of incendiary white phosphorous weapons by the U.S.-led coalition fighting IS,...

Hong Kong: Hong Kong's top court on Wednesday upheld a corruption conviction against a billionaire property tycoon, putting an end to one of the most...

Beirut: Lebanon expects to hold a parliamentary election on May 6, 2018, and parliament will extend its current term until May 20 that year, Information...

Wahington/Cincinnati: Otto Warmbier, an American university student held prisoner in North Korea for 17 months and said by his family to be in a coma, was...