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Kolkata: Thousands of security personnel dotted every nook and corner of East Midnapore and Cooch Behar districts as polling will be held on Thursday for...

Frankfurt: Hundreds of millions of hacked usernames and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia's criminal...

Nawaran (Iraq): When IS militant group swept into the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar in 2014, a few young Yazidi women took up arms against the militants...

Brussels: The European Commission proposed a system to distribute asylum seekers across the EU on Wednesday that aims to ease the load on states like Greece...

Singapore/Dhaka: Eight Bangladeshi men held in Singapore for allegedly plotting attacks in their homeland had formed a hardliners' cell that met in...

New Delhi: Congress on Wednesday slammed the government over the AgustaWestland row, saying it was trying to "vilify the head of a political...

Rio De Janeiro: Mining companies Vale SA and BHP Billiton were hit with a 155 billion-real ($43.5 billion) civil lawsuit for the collapse of a dam at a mine...

Ankara/Istanbul: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's drive to tighten his grip on power has triggered an open rift with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu,...

New Delhi: India's top court told tobacco companies on Wednesday they must adhere to a new federal rule requiring much larger health warnings on...

Jakarta: Indonesia is preparing to execute several prisoners, a police official said on Wednesday, though authorities have not said if foreigners will be...