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Vienna: Austria has elected a 72-year-old former leader of the Greens party to be its next president, narrowly avoiding becoming the first country in the...

Nairobi: Kenyan police fired tear gas and water cannon on Monday to disperse hundreds of people protesting at alleged bias in the country's electoral...

Paris/Cargo: Teams searching for the black box flight recorders of a missing EgyptAir jet that crashed with 66 people aboard face technical constraints that...

Istanbul: A crisis fund has been launched to raise $3.8 billion to help millions of children missing out on school because of war or natural disasters, UN...

Kabul/Hanoi: Senior Afghan Taliban figures were meeting on Monday to agree on a successor to Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the leader of the militant movement who...

Paris: France's hardline CGT and FO unions launched a 24-hour strike at the Fos-Lavera oil terminals and blockaded a fuel depot in the southern port...

London: Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is to join the London School of Economics (LSE) as a visiting professor on a new masters course on women, peace and...

New Delhi: Prashant Kishor, the election campaign manager brought in by India's opposition Congress party to reverse its declining fortunes, knew his...

Chennai: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) supremo J. Jayalalithaa, who defied a 32-year history to return to power for a second consecutive...

Gaza: Israel resumed cement shipments to the Gaza Strip on Monday, ending a 45-day-old ban it imposed after it accused the Palestinian enclave's Hamas...