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Yangon: Aung San Suu Kyi, whose post as Myanmar state counsellor makes her de facto head of state, vowed on Monday to build a democratic federal union...

Pedernales/Portoviejo: The death toll from Ecuador's worst earthquake in decades rose to 350 on Monday while traumatised survivors rested amid the...

Tokyo: The Japanese share market fell more than 3 per cent on Monday after a series of earthquakes measuring up to 7.3 magnitude struck a southern...

London: British finance minister George Osborne said a vote to leave the European Union would do permanent damage to the country's economy and could...

Kabul: Like many teenagers, 19-year-old Negin Khpalwak from Kunar in eastern Afghanistan loves music, but few people of her age have battled as fiercely to...

Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday claimed that the east Indian state of West Bengal, specially Kolkata, had been reduced to an old age home by...

New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's call for an Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-free India, on Sunday received support from Congress which...

Kolkata: In a heavy turnout amid reports of sporadic violence, close to 80 per cent of the electorate cast their votes till 5pm in the election to 56 West...

Berlin: Two thirds of Germans oppose Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to allow prosecutors to pursue a case against a German comedian who mocked...

Santiago: Heavy rains battering central Chile have left an estimated 4 million people without drinking water as landslides wreaked havoc and rivers breached...