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Manila: Philippine labour groups expressed disappointment on Wednesday over a long-awaited executive order by President Rodrigo Duterte to crack down on...

Caracas: Presidential candidate Henri Falcon pledged on Tuesday to raise Venezuela's minimum wage to $75 per month in a newly-dollarized economy should...

San Jose(California): Facebook Inc plans to add a dating service, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday, marking the first time the world's...

Havana: At Cuba's first major political rally since Raul Castro handed the presidency over to his protege Miguel Diaz-Canel, the two men stood...

Yerevan: Armenia's ruling party on Tuesday blocked a bid by opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan to become prime minister, setting up a standoff between...

Damascus: A senior Iranian member of parliament vowed on Tuesday that his country will react to "Israeli aggression" against it in Syria, issuing...

New York: The number of Americans sickened each year by bites from infected mosquitoes, ticks or fleas tripled from 2004 through 2016, with infection rates...

Vienna: The UN atomic watchdog declined on Tuesday to directly address Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's accusations that Iran was breaching...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israel said on Tuesday it does not seek war with Iran, a day after presenting purported evidence of past Iranian nuclear arms work, but...

Paris: French riot police used water cannon and teargas on Tuesday against hundreds of hooded protesters after they smashed shop windows and hurled petrol...