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St Petersburg: Around 500 people demonstrated in St Petersburg on Sunday against planned increases in Russia's pension age, a week after hundreds were...

Taji (Iraq): German forces will be needed in Iraq for a long time to help rebuild the country's military as it struggles to ensure that IS militants do...

Hong Kong/Manila: A super typhoon made landfall in China's Guangdong on Sunday, the country's most populous province, after wreaking havoc in Hong...

Paris: Close allies of the French president rounded on the opposition-led senate, warning it against abusing its power and seeking to undermine the...

Beijing: China on Sunday accused Taiwan's spy agencies of stepping up efforts to steal intelligence with the aim of "infiltration" and...

Yangon: At least 100 Myanmar youth activists and journalists called for the release of two jailed Reuters journalists on Sunday, warning that the seven-year...

Tokyo: Japanese author Haruki Murakami has asked for the withdrawal of his nomination for an alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, postponed this...

Melbourne: Australia will begin a public inquiry, or Royal Commission, into the country's aged-care sector as a spike in cases of elderly abuse creates...

Berlin: An anti-Kremlin activist lost his sight, hearing and ability to walk in a suspected poisoning last week but is doing better since he arrived in...

London: Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, has called for another referendum on Britain's European Union membership, saying the prime minister's handling...