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LONDON: Hundreds of thousands of London commuters faced travel chaos on Tuesday as a train drivers' strike bought services from southern England and...

Brussels: European Union (EU) foreign ministers said on Tuesday the bloc would not push ahead with membership talks with Turkey but rejected calls by...

Washington: US President-elect Donald Trump announced Exxon Mobil Corp Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson as his choice for secretary of state on...

Rome: New prime minister Paolo Gentiloni said in his maiden speech to parliament on Tuesday he was ready to support Italy's ailing banks and wanted more...

Banjul: West African heads of state began arriving in Gambia on Tuesday to try to convince the long-ruling President Yahya Jammeh to relinquish power after...

Seoul: A friend of South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the centre of a scandal that led to Park's impeachment in parliament will attend the...

Jakarta: A tearful governor of Jakarta denied on Tuesday he had intended to insult the holy book at the start of his blasphemy trial in the Indonesian...

Nagpur: In a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi government, former finance minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday dubbed demonetisation a "thoughtless...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's allies in Congress on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against a senator who has been an outspoken...

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday hinted at lower direct and indirect tax rates in the future as demonetisation results in higher tax...