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Colombo: Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena is under increasing pressure to uphold the island nation's constitution and reconvene parliament after...

Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel told leaders of her conservatives on Monday that she will not seek re-election as party chairwoman, senior party...

Dhaka: A Bangladesh court sentenced former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia to seven years in prison for corruption on Monday, lawyers said,...

Pakisjaya(Indonesia): An Indonesian airliner crashed into the sea on Monday, with the likely loss of all 189 people on board, as it tried to return to...

Muscat: Leicester City Football Club's billionaire owner was confirmed to have died in the tragic helicopter accident on Saturday, according to a...

Berlin: Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and their Social Democrat (SPD) coalition allies in Berlin both haemorrhaged support in a regional...

Damascus/Jaber, Jordan: Jordanians are flocking to the Syrian capital Damascus for the first time in years for tourism and trade after the reopening of a...

Colombo: A political crisis in Sri Lanka took a deadly turn on Sunday, with one person killed when a sacked cabinet minister tried to re-enter his office,...

Damascus: Syria's National Museum of Damascus opened its rich trove of antiquities to visitors again on Sunday, seven years after war forced them to...

London: British finance minister Philip Hammond warned rebels in his Conservative Party that he would have to quickly reverse plans to ease nearly a decade...