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Sao Paulo/Brasilia: Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was briefly detained for questioning on Friday in a federal investigation of a vast...

Islamabad: Pakistan's upper house of parliament on Friday rejected a bill to privatise the cash-strapped national airline, another delay for the...

Harare: Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe says his successor must be chosen democratically and that his wife will not automatically inherit the role, a...

Hong Kong: One of five missing Hong Kong booksellers specialising in gossipy publications about Chinese leaders and detained in China returned home on...

Kuala Lumpur: Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad on Friday joined hands with long-standing foes, including the party of the jailed Anwar Ibrahim, to...

Kuala Lumpur: The families of 12 passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 filed suits against the airline on Friday before a two-year...

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his country to be ready to use its nuclear weapons at any time and the military to be in "pre-emptive...

Washington: Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton took big steps toward securing their parties' presidential nominations on Tuesday with...

New Delhi: JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested in a sedition case, was on Wednesday granted interim conditional bail for six months by the Delhi High...

Los Angeles: Kamala Harris, California's Attorney General, may become the first Indian-American Senator in the US Congress after she easily won the...