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Beirut: The battle for control of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo intensified on Sunday with air strikes, ground offensives and shelling, the morning...

Erbil: Kurdish fighters said they had taken the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from IS militant group on Sunday as coalition forces pressed their offensive...

Bengaluru: They are not easy to spot. Working in vegetable patches and on millet fields in India's southern state of Karnataka, farm labourers caught in...

Lucknow: Ruling Samajwadi Party appeared to be headed for a split on Sunday as Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his party supremo and father Mulayam Singh...

Madrid: Spain's conservative leader Mariano Rajoy was on course to secure a second term in power for his People's Party (PP) on Sunday after his...

Washington: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will "100 per cent" accept the results of the US election if it is fair, his son Eric...

Algiers: The long-standing chief of Algeria's ruling FLN party Amar Saadani has resigned just weeks after making accusations that a retired spy chief...

London: Big international banks are preparing to move some of their operations out of Britain in early 2017 due to the uncertainty over the country's...

Milan: Italy's economy minister said on Sunday the European Union must choose between allowing Rome to raise its deficit to cope with a recent...

Erbil (Iraq): Iraqi forces have advanced to 5km (3 miles) from Mosul in an offensive against IS' last major Iraq stronghold and there are signs of...