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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Iran on May 22-23 as India looks at stepping up engagement with the sanctions-free energy-rich...

Tripoli: Libyan military forces said on Tuesday they had recaptured one of the main checkpoints south of the city of Misrata from IS, reversing some of the...

Vienna/Beirut: Major power foreign ministers failed to agree a new date to resume Syrian peace talks at a meeting on Tuesday, and the opposition said it...

Islamabad: The son of an assassinated Pakistani governor who was released more than four years after his kidnapping by extremist militants said the Quran,...

Washington: The United States eased some sanctions on Myanmar on Tuesday to support political reforms and economic growth in the country but retained other...

Vienna: Rival factions have agreed in principle to have one oil organisation for strife-torn Libya, the foreign minister in the new UN-backed, national...

Sarikamis (Turkey): Turkish authorities have identified the remains of 13 people from two families killed after a truck carrying more than 15 tonnes of...

Paris: French truckers blockaded fuel and food supply depots on Tuesday as marchers took to the streets in a further wave of nationwide protest against...

Calgary (Alberta): A massive wildfire around the oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, moved toward energy production facilities on Tuesday, extending a...

Nairobi: Kenya's authorities tore down a badly built residential block in a poor Nairobi district on Tuesday, one of more than 250 shoddy buildings that...