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New York:The protection of Palestinian civilians could be improved by the deployment of UN-mandated armed forces or unarmed observers, a beefed-up UN...

New Delhi: US technology giants plan to intensify lobbying efforts against stringent Indian data localisation requirements, which they say will undermine...

Vienna: Russian President Vladimir Putin danced arm in arm with Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding on Saturday, after receiving an...

Mecca(Saudi Arabia): Hisham Mostafa briefly forgot the war in Syria and his financial worries as he looked upon Islam's holiest sites for the first...

Shanghai: Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit Pyongyang next month at the invitation of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un to attend the celebrations...

Kochi(India): India deployed thousands of soldiers and dozens of helicopters to rescue people marooned by the worst floods in a century in the southern...

Melbourne: Australia's worst drought in a generation is driving flocks of emus into an outback mining town in a desperate hunt for food and water, an...

Melbourne: Strong winds intensified bushfires burning across much of the Australian state of New South Wales on Saturday, with the Rural Fire Service (RFS)...

Muscat: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to send more helicopters, boats and other equipment needed to evacuate several thousand who are...

Accra/Geneva: Former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan has died at the age of 80, his foundation said on...