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Sydney: Stricter screening of passengers and luggage at Australian airports will stay in place indefinitely after police foiled an alleged plot to bring...

Kabul: Militant group IS claimed responsibility for an attack on the Iraqi embassy in Kabul on Monday that began with a suicide bomber blowing himself up at...

Islamabad: A close ally of ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday submitted papers in parliament to become the new premier, part of a...

Caracas/Puerto Ordaz (Venezuela): Streets were deserted on Sunday as a minority of Venezuelans trickled to the polls to elect a constitutional super-body...

Seoul: The United States flew two supersonic B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force on Sunday after Pyongyang's recent tests of...

Beirut: Nearly 90,000 Iranians are expected to attend the Haj this year, and were due to start arriving on Sunday, after Tehran boycotted the pilgrimage...

Beirut: About 8,000 people have registered to leave the Lebanese border region near Arsal for a rebel-held area of Syria as part of a local ceasefire...

Rabat: Morocco's King Mohammed VI has pardoned dozens of people arrested in recent protests in a northern region and blamed the failure of local...