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BEIRUT: Iran's Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday became the first foreign minister to meet Lebanon's new president. A Christian leader and close ally...

New Delhi: India and Britain on Monday pledged to fight terrorism and bring to justice terror groups and those who encourage them even as the two countries...

Washington: Janet Reno, the first woman US attorney general who served eight tumultuous years with President Bill Clinton, has died aged 78. Reno's...

JOHANNESBURG: A far-left South African politician who wants to nationalise banks, mines and land said on Monday he would ask the Constitutional Court to...

KIEV: Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili tendered his resignation as governor of Ukraine's southern Odessa region on Monday, accusing...

SINGAPORE/ANKARA: Iran has reached a deal with a foreign leasing company to finance the first 17 jets it plans to buy from Airbus, breaking a logjam in...

Beirut: US-backed Syrian armed groups have captured a number of villages in the first days of an offensive to retake the city of Raqqa from IS militants, a...

Cairo/Abu Dhabi: Saudi Arabia has informed Egypt that shipments of oil products expected under a $23 billion aid deal have been halted indefinitely. Saudi...

Bashiqa (Iraq): Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces stormed an IS-held town northeast of Mosul on Monday, trying to clear a pocket of militants outside the city...

New Delhi: The Delhi government on Monday started a process of deregistering 15-year-old diesel vehicles in the city and also imposed a ban on use of fire...