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GENEVA: The United Nations said on Tuesday that Russia's plan for a ceasefire will not mean any supplies get into besieged eastern Aleppo because...

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said "no wonders" should be expected at talks on a stalled peace plan for eastern Ukraine which she will...

CALAIS/LILLE (France): France transferred another dozen mostly Afghan teenagers to Britain on Tuesday as efforts to rehouse the most vulnerable migrants of...

Baghdad/Erbil: Residents of Mosul said IS was using civilians as human shields as Iraqi and Kurdish forces captured outlying villages in their advance on...

New Delhi: India will extend all help to Myanmar in setting up democratic institutions for ensuring stability in that country during transition phase,...

Dubai/Washington: An Iranian court has sentenced an Iranian-American businessman and his elderly father to 10 years in prison on charges of cooperating with...

Ankara: Turkey's ruling AK Party will soon bring to parliament its plans to expand the powers of the presidency, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on...

Yangon: Violence in Northern Rakhine state of Myanmar is stopping aid agencies from delivering food and medicines, a United Nations official said on...

Ludwigshafen (Germany): The two people known to have died after an explosion and subsequent fire at German chemical giant BASF's flagship production...

Washington: Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said late on Monday that its founder Julian Assange's Internet was shut down by the government of Ecuador,...