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Washington: The Senate confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's US Supreme Court pick, opened in chaos on Tuesday, as...

Kabul: Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant Haqqani network, one of the most powerful and feared groups in the Afghan insurgency, has died after a...

Muscat: A number of people are feared trapped after a portion of a flyover collapsed in the city of Kolkata in India on Tuesday evening. According to...

Takamatsu(Japan): Japan is known for its abundance of centenarians and can now lay claim to having the world's oldest living married couple, with a...

Washington: The United States and India will seek to finalise a number of defence agreements during high-level talks this week that aim to draw their two...

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron appointed a former Green lawmaker as his new environment minister on Tuesday, hoping to inject new life into his...

Tokyo: Japan issued evacuation advisories for more than a million people and cancelled hundreds of flights as Typhoon Jebi sliced across the west on...

Cairo: Egyptian security forces detained a man on Tuesday after an explosive device detonated near the US Embassy in central Cairo, three security sources...

Islamabad: The chief executive of Pakistan's loss-making national airline on Tuesday stepped down on the order of the Supreme Court, which has ruled his...

Yangon: Several Myanmar news outlets and dozens of civil society groups denounced the jailing of two Reuters reporters for seven years under the Official...