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Rome: The prospect of an election re-run in July grew on Monday as Italian President Sergio Mattarella held a final round of consultations to try to break...

Ankara: President Hassan Rouhani hinted on Monday that Iran could remain in its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers even if the United States dropped out...

Aboard USS Harry S. Truman: A US naval strike force led by aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman began sorties on May 3 against IS in Syria, continuing...

Dubai: Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition bombed Yemen's presidential palace in the centre of the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa early on Monday,...

New Delhi: India's Supreme Court on Monday ordered the trial of eight men accused of the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl to be moved to...

Kabul: Afghanistan's poverty rate has worsened sharply over the past five years as the economy has stalled and the Taliban insurgency has spread, with...

Beirut: Hezbollah and its political allies won just over half the seats in Lebanon's parliamentary elections, unofficial results showed, boosting an...

Kuala Lumpur: With two days to go for Malaysia's general election, politicians are battling for the crucial ethnic Malay vote that Prime Minister Najib...

Rome: The leader of Italy's far-right League, Matteo Salvini, said on Monday he had asked the president to give him a mandate to try to form a...

Moscow: Vladimir Putin was sworn in for another six years as Russian president on Monday, buoyed by popular support but weighed down too by a costly...