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Dubai: Yemen declared a state of emergency in Socotra on Thursday after a tropical cyclone (Mekunu) flooded several villages and capsized boats on the...

Madrid: One person was killed and 26 wounded, including seven children, by an explosion in a fireworks storage facility in the town of Tui in Galicia,...

Rome: President Sergio Mattarella has given political novice Giuseppe Conte a mandate to become prime minister of a coalition put together by the far-right...

London: Yulia Skripal survived an assassination attempt that UK authorities blame on Russia. But the daughter of one of Russia's most famous spies says...

New York: The Parkland, Florida, school massacre has had little lasting impact on US views on gun control, three months after the shooting deaths of 17...

Paris: France and Saudi Arabia will co-host an international conference on Yemen in Paris in June to assess humanitarian needs for the country and possibly...

London: Iran on Wednesday kept up a drumbeat of opposition to US demands for sweeping change in its foreign policy and nuclear programme, and Tehran's...

Islamabad: Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday accused a former intelligence chief of asking him to resign during opposition...

Baghdad: The United States has contacted members of a political bloc in Iraq led by cleric Moqtada Al Sadr after his election win put him in a strong...

Beirut: Politician Nabih Berri, a close ally of the Hezbollah group, was re-elected for a sixth term as speaker of Lebanon's parliament in an...