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New Delhi: The Election Commission has asked the government to amend laws to bar people from contesting from two seats or, at least as a deterrent, a...

Chennai: Eighteen people were killed in six districts of the south eastern Indian state of Tamil Nadu in rain-related incidents linked to Cyclone Vardah...

Beijing: Chinese soldiers laid wreaths on Tuesday at a ceremony to mark the 1937 massacre of civilians in the Chinese city of Nanjing by Japanese...

Bangkok: Thailand's new King Maha Vajiralongkorn will pardon or commute the sentences of up to 150,000 prison inmates, including some jailed under one...

Islamabad: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) chairman Azam Saigol has resigned from his post citing personal reasons, the company's spokesman said...

Seoul: Thousands of survivors of floods that hit a remote corner of North Korea in August are in need of urgent aid as winter sets in, a senior...

Ankara: Turkey is negotiating with Russia to open a corridor to evacuate Syrian rebel fighters and civilians from the remaining opposition-held districts of...

ROME: Newly appointed Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni unveiled his government on Monday, keeping almost all the outgoing ministers in place in a sign...

Cairo: A 36-year-old bedbound Egyptian woman, weighing about 500kg and believed to the world's heaviest, will soon leave for India for a...

United Nations: Antonio Guterres, a former Portuguese prime minister, was on Monday sworn in as the ninth UN Secretary-General, succeeding Ban Ki-moon as...