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Geneva: UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called on China on Monday to allow in monitors after "deeply disturbing" allegations of large...

New York: A breakthrough in DNA analysis is helping identify more victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York, but the scientific advance is of...

Bangkok: UN climate talks in Bangkok made little headway on the thorny issue of how funding for poor nations to tackle global warming will be stepped up, an...

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party faces a "catastrophic split" if she persists with her proposals on Brexit,...

Mogadishu: A suicide car bomb rammed into a local government office in Somalia's capital on Monday, killing at least six people in an attack claimed by...

Kabul: Afghan media are facing growing pressure to cut back coverage of militant attacks following the death of two television reporters who were among 20...

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, eyeing an historic extended term, reaffirmed on Monday his resolve to revise the nation's post-war, pacifist...

Sydney: An Australian man was charged with murdering his three young daughters, their mother and their grandmother in Perth, police said on Monday,...

New Delhi: Nationwide protests against record high petrol and diesel prices shut down businesses, government offices and schools in many parts of India on...

Tripoli: Armed groups vying for control of the Libyan capital have agreed to set up a mechanism to "consolidate" a recently agreed ceasefire, the...