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Bucharest: Romania's Social Democrat government made good on Sunday on a promise by the prime minister to repeal a decree decriminalising some graft...

Moscow: Russia said on Sunday that it supports the continuation of Syria peace talks under United Nations auspices, long-running negotiations which had been...

Dubai: Iran will issue visas for a US wrestling team to attend the Freestyle World Cup competition, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported on...

Mosul: As a walkie-talkie carried word of another casualty from an IS mortar attack, an Iraqi policeman peered through leaves at enemy positions just across...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Saturday that peace negotiations with Maoist-led rebels would be scrapped, five months after both sides...

Peshawar: At least 14 people were killed in an avalanche that buried five homes following heavy snowfall in a remote area in north Pakistan's Chitral...

Tokyo: A hotel in Japan is defying the digital books trend and appealing to guests who prefer to curl up with a traditional paper book. Book and Bed Tokyo,...

Cairo: Rights activists are trying to force President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi to throw out a law used by his government to imprison thousands of Egyptians and...

Islamabad/New Delhi: Pakistan has thanked India for its cooperation in reuniting a five-year-old boy with his Pakistani mother nearly a year after he was...

Tokyo: About 200 protesters marched through the streets of Tokyo's Shinjuku district on Sunday carrying banners to protest a hotel chain under fire for...