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Beijing: Bestowing President Xi Jinping with the title of "core" leader is not a sign of dictatorship in China's ruling Communist Party, a...

Oslo: Almost one in seven children worldwide live in areas with high levels of outdoor air pollution, mostly in South Asia, and their growing bodies are...

Jakarta: Top Indonesian officials on Monday called for calm ahead of a planned protest by hardline groups that has fuelled concern over tension in the...

Sydney: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull defended on Monday a proposal to ban asylum seekers who arrive illegally by boat from ever entering Australia again,...

Islamabad: A Pakistani court on Monday granted opposition politician Imran Khan permission to hold anti-government protests in the capital this week, but...

Beijing/Manila: China said on Monday the situation at the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea "has not changed and will not change",...

Islamabad: Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan on Sunday dismissed accusations his planned shutdown of the nation's capital could lead to a military...

Bhopal: Eight SIMI activists who pulled off a daring prison break and escaped in the wee hours after killing a security guard at the Bhopal Central Jail...

New Delhi: Delhi woke up to the season's worst air quality as smoke from diwali fireworks, coupled with moisture and nearly stagnant wind movement,...

Istanbul: Turkish police detained the editor and a dozen senior staff from the main secularist opposition newspaper on Monday, a day after 10,000 more civil...