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New Delhi: India launched fast-track courts and a tougher rape law that included the death penalty after a gruesome assault on a young woman shocked the...

Shebaa(Lebanon): Several hundred Syrians who have lived for years as refugees in Lebanon left for their home country on Wednesday in a rare case of a mass...

Havana: Cuba on Wednesday proposed Miguel Diaz-Canel as sole candidate to replace Raul Castro as president, which will make him the island's first...

London: Princess Diana would approve of her son Prince Harry's marriage to US actress Meghan Markle, according to author Andrew Morton whose famous...

Rome: Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday asked the head of the upper house Senate to meet bickering party leaders to see if she can break the...

London: President Hassan Rouhani said Iran would make or buy any weapons it needed to defend itself in a region beset by "invading powers", as the...

Ankara: Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday called a snap presidential and parliamentary election on June 24, more than a year earlier than planned,...

Beijing: Nepal is a natural area for cooperation between China and India, the Chinese government's top diplomat State Councillor Wang Yi said on...

Oslo: Several wind farm projects in Sweden are under threat due to the government's decision to reserve more airspace for its armed forces, according to...

Washington/Seoul: CIA director Mike Pompeo, US President Donald Trump's nominee to become the top US diplomat, visited North Korea last week and met...