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New Delhi: The cabinet on Wednesday approved promulgation of an ordinance to impose a penalty, including a jail term, for possession of the scrapped 500 and...

Washington: US Secretary of State John Kerry warned on Wednesday that the future of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was in...

Dubai: Iran has warned off foreign surveillance planes that have tried to approach its forces during air defence exercises, an Iranian military spokesman...

New Delhi: Career bureaucrat Anil Baijal was on Wednesday appointed as the new lieutenant governor of Delhi, a post which has fallen vacant after sudden...

Berlin: German authorities have detained a Tunisian man they suspect of involvement in the truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market which killed 12 people,...

Riga/Tallinn: Russia and its president Vladimir Putin should expect tough sanctions after cyber attacks during the presidential election won by Donald...

Paris: French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday pardoned a woman who had been convicted for the murder of her violent husband, in a rare use of that...

Mexico City: Mexico aims to defend free trade with the United States by using border security and immigration policy to gain leverage in talks with US...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte completes six months in charge on Friday, with the rising death toll from his war on drugs showing no sign of...

Kabul: A bomb attack targeted a member of Afghanistan's parliament in the capital, Kabul, on Wednesday, wounding him and several other people, officials...