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Hanoi: Vietnamese police broke up a demonstration in the capital, Hanoi, on Sunday when protesters gathered for the second time in a week to denounce a...

Sydney: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull fired the starting gun on Sunday on one of the longest election campaigns in Australia's history, against the...

Ankara: Turkish shelling killed 55 IS insurgents in northern Syria on Saturday evening, military sources said, in retaliation for weeks of rocket attacks on...

Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will not use nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is infringed by others with nuclear arms,...

Mexico City: A 5.9 magnitude earthquake shook southern Mexico before dawn on Sunday and was felt as far away as Mexico City, prompting buildings to sway and...

New Delhi: In a strong attack, former union minister Arun Shourie on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing him of "narcissism"...

Sydney: Australia's conservative government is running neck-and-neck with the centre-left Labor opposition, according to an opinion poll published on...

Cairo: An Egyptian court on Saturday recommended the death penalty for three journalists and three others charged with endangering national security by...

Beijing: A group of Nobel laureates visited sanctions-bound North Korea over the last week despite objections from South Korea, saying they wanted to extend...

Amman: Conditions were worsening in a Syrian prison where nearly 800 mostly political detainees have launched a revolt, with security forces failing in an...