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Seoul: China is retaliating over South Korea's agreement to host the U.S. THAAD missile defence system because it does not understand it is aimed only...

Tokyo: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday that the escalating threat from North Korea's nuclear program showed a clear need for a...

Amsterdam: Voter turnout in Wednesday's Dutch parliamentary election was far higher than five years ago according to pollster Ipsos, which is conducting...

Vienna: Four Swiss men were killed when their ski touring group was swept away by an avalanche in western Austria, police in the Tyrol region said on...

Maiduguri (Nigeria): Four female teenage suicide bombers killed two people and injured 16 others in a residential area in the northeast Nigerian city of...

Washington: President Donald Trump on Thursday will offer the first details of his plans for deep cuts in domestic programmes and foreign aid, releasing a...

London/Edinburgh: It would be impossible to hold a legal and decisive referendum on Scottish independence in the timeframe demanded by First Minister Nicola...

Rome: The Italian government won a confidence vote in the Senate on Wednesday on a fiercely contested reform of the justice system aimed at preventing...

Karachi/Peshawar: Fast-growing Pakistan, estimated to be the sixth-largest country by population, kicked off its first national census in 19 years on...

New York: A late-season snowstorm that swept the mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States began to weaken on Wednesday after killing six people,...