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Yangon: Human Rights Watch on Monday called for Myanmar to punish army and police commanders if they allowed troops to rape and assault women and girls of...

Chennai: As questions continued to rage over the death of J. Jayalalithaa, London-based specialist Richard Beale, Apollo and government doctors on Monday...

Paris: French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon on Monday defended his past conduct in a scandal involving payments to his wife for work...

Sydney: A prominent member of Australia's government is set to defect to form his own conservative party, media reported on Monday, further evidence of...

Washington: President Donald Trump's temporary immigration ban faced on Monday the first of several crucial legal hurdles that could determine whether...

Kabul: Civilian casualties in Afghanistan rose to new highs in 2016, driven by more IS attacks, the most deaths and injuries from air strikes since 2009 and...

Karachi: An Afghan diplomat was shot dead on Monday by a guard at the Afghan consulate in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi in a personal dispute,...

Paris: Heavyweight centrist Francois Bayrou joined calls on Sunday for French presidential candidate Francois Fillon to withdraw from the race, as his own...

New Delhi: A boy died in Jammu and Kashmir in an incident related to rainfall which hit parts of northern India even as Delhi witnessed a pleasant day amid...

Abuja: Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday asked parliament to extend his medical leave, his office said in a statement, after he took two...