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Cairo: Egypt's highest court reversed on Sunday a 15-year jail sentence handed down by a lower court to a policeman for killing an activist in the...

Tirana (Albania): US Secretary of State John Kerry stopped off in Albania on Sunday to encourage its leaders to complete anti-corruption measures that could...

London/Stockholm: Britain's Foreign Office said five men, which Swedish media reported were the four members and manager of the rock band Viola Beach,...

Lesbos (Greece): She drowned trying to reach Europe, but her headless body was never identified. Her tombstone will bear no name. Like others buried beside...

Seoul: South Korea said 70 per cent of the US dollars paid as wages and fees for the suspended Kaesong industrial project, run jointly with the North, had...

Nairobi: A grenade attack on a military base in Burundi's capital killed a child and wounded his father and one other person, an official and witnesses...

Wellington: A strong 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck near Christchurch in New Zealand on Sunday, causing cliffs to collapse into the sea but no major damage...

Bangui: Central Africans cast their ballots on Sunday in an election meant to restore democratic rule, determined to turn the page on years of bloodshed...

New Delhi: India is the only economy which has not been affected by the global economic crisis which has hit the world, primarily due to the policies being...

New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has once again been questioned in connection with his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death and the special...