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Paris: Close allies of the French president rounded on the opposition-led senate, warning it against abusing its power and seeking to undermine the...

Beijing: China on Sunday accused Taiwan's spy agencies of stepping up efforts to steal intelligence with the aim of "infiltration" and...

Yangon: At least 100 Myanmar youth activists and journalists called for the release of two jailed Reuters journalists on Sunday, warning that the seven-year...

Tokyo: Japanese author Haruki Murakami has asked for the withdrawal of his nomination for an alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, postponed this...

Melbourne: Australia will begin a public inquiry, or Royal Commission, into the country's aged-care sector as a spike in cases of elderly abuse creates...

Berlin: An anti-Kremlin activist lost his sight, hearing and ability to walk in a suspected poisoning last week but is doing better since he arrived in...

London: Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, has called for another referendum on Britain's European Union membership, saying the prime minister's handling...

Lamu( Kenya): Kenyan islanders have built a boat made entirely of recycled plastic collected during clean-ups of the ocean to highlight the growing menace...

New Delhi: India's finance minister said on Saturday that the government is confident of meeting its fiscal deficit target of 3.3 per cent of gross...

Jericho(West Bank): The United States will not present its long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace any time soon and is instead trying to...