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Oslo: The Philippines government and Maoist-led rebels agreed indefinite ceasefires on Friday as part of an accord to accelerate efforts to end a conflict...

Manila: Philippine commandos killed 11 militants on a remote southern island on Friday, an army spokesman said, stepping up the offensive after President...

Johannesburg: A South African judge dismissed on Friday a request by state prosecutors to appeal Oscar Pistorius' six-year murder sentence, the latest...

Budapest: Hungary plans to build a second fence on its southern border with Serbia that would enable it to keep out any major new wave of migrants,...

Queenstown: A Czech woman who spent nearly a month alone in a warden's hut on a remote New Zealand hiking track after her male partner was killed in a...

Seoul: One of the top executives at South Korea's Lotte Group was found dead on Friday, a suspected suicide, hours before he was to be questioned by...

Mumbai: In a significant judgement, the Bombay High Court on Friday lifted the ban imposed on women from entering the sanctum sanctorum of Haji Ali dargah...

Harare: Zimbabwean police on Friday fired tear gas at opposition leaders and hundreds of demonstrators as a protest against President Robert Mugabe...

Hong Kong: A Chinese general has been arrested in China for violating party discipline, a Hong Kong newspaper cited two unnamed sources as saying,...

New Delhi: Enunciating his vision to rapidly transform India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said there is a need to change laws, eliminate...