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Male/Colombo: More than a quarter of a million people will vote on Sunday for the next leader of the tropical Maldives in an election criticised...

Nairobi: Kenya's president has proposed hiking taxes on mobile payments and other money transfer services, documents sent to parliament this month...

Moscow/Vladivostok: Russia's senior election official has recommended the results of a regional election in the country's Far East be annulled due...

Carrizo Springs/Katy (Texas): Texas cattle rancher Bill Martin is a lifelong Republican who owns more than 20 firearms and has been shooting guns since the...

Kuala Lumpur: Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will face further corruption charges related to money allegedly siphoned off from scandal-plagued...

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron's closest security officer, fired after video showed him beating May Day protesters, defended himself before a...

Tokyo: As a Japanese military recruiter sat patiently at a booth outside a supermarket in northern Tokyo one recent weekend, she welcomed a rare visitor,...

Islamabad: A Pakistani court on Wednesday ordered the release of jailed ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter, suspending the sentences they...

Islamabad/Dubai: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia where, comments from his finance minister suggest, he will seek...

Seoul: North Korea said on Wednesday it would permanently abolish its key missile facilities in the presence of foreign experts, the latest gesture by...