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London: The race to choose a new prime minister officially began in the UK with 10 Conservative party hopefuls bidding to win the biggest job in British...

Muscat: A helicopter crash-landed on a high-rise building in Manhattan, New York, killing one person, officials in America's largest city...

Dhaka: Emirates Red Crescent Authority (ERC) has collected more than $18 million in a weeklong campaign to support the forcefully displaced Rohingya people...

Washington DC: Democrats criticised US President Donald Trump’s tactic of threatening punitive tariffs to extract concessions on immigration from Mexico,...

San Diego: The US space agency NASA announced it had detected a coronal mass ejection (CME) from a star 450 light years from Earth. In a post on Twitter,...

Ankara: Nechirvan Barzani was sworn in Monday as Iraqi Kurdistan’s second president, succeeding his uncle and veteran leader Masoud Barzani whose son...

Islamabad: Pakistan's former President Asif Ali Zardari was arrested by officials from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in Islamabad. He was...

New Delhi: The number of Indians set to perform Haj this year has risen to 200,000, according to India's Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar...

Dubai: Dubai Airports today pledged to ban plastics from consumer spaces at the world's busiest international airport effective January 1 2020. “At...

Madrid: The city of Barcelona has finally issued a building permit for the world-famous La Sagrada Familia, 137 years after construction work started on the...