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Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia will hold a general election on May 9, the Election Commission said on Tuesday, in what could be the toughest test of the ruling...

Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks with his North Korean counterpart, Ri Yong Ho, on Tuesday, and said afterwards that Moscow...

Beirut: Dozens of buses arrived in rebel-held northwestern Syria on Tuesday carrying Syrian insurgents who had agreed to surrender the town they controlled...

Ashoro (Japan): A 112-year-old Japanese man born months before Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity was recognised on Tuesday as the...

Belfast/Dublin: The leaders who brokered a peace deal for Northern Ireland in 1998 marked its 20th anniversary on Tuesday by warning that a hardening...

Hanoi: Vietnamese human rights activists and independent media groups have written to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Inc's chief executive, questioning...

New Delhi: Deaths and injuries from train collisions or derailment in India more than halved to 254 people last fiscal year from a year ago, railways data...

Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline cannot go ahead without clarity on Ukraine's role as a gas...

Colombo: Sri Lankan police have arrested two army corporals for their suspected involvement in anti-Muslim riots in the central highlands district of Kandy...

Kaiyuan (China): A man in northeastern China who always wanted to own an aircraft is doing the next best thing: building a full-scale replica of an Airbus...