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Railway workers dig trenches to release flood water from the rail tracks as rains continued in Kolkata, yesterday. Kolkata: A girl was swept...

A ceremonial border meeting of India-China personnel was held yesterday.

Afghan refugees and Pakistani tribal people leave with their belongings during an operation to demolish their neighbourhood in Islamabad. With no water supply,...

A Pakistani man walks past shuttered shops during a traders’ strike in Peshawar yesterday. The business community is observing a nationwide shutter-down strike...

Kabul: The Taliban yesterday denied reports of the death of the founder of Haqqani network, its allied militant group blamed for some of...

AJapan Coast Guards vessel (left) spraying water on the Sunflower Daisetsu car ferry off Tomakomai port, Hokkaido, Japan. Tokyo: Rescuers yesterday launched an...

US actress and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie (right) and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi meet with factory workers at a...

Manila:  The Philippines on Sunday vowed to take further action to aid those displaced by deadly Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, following UN...

Flames from the Rocky Fire approach a house in Lower Lake, California. LOWER LAKE: Blazes raging in forests and woodlands across California have...

The site where a military aircraft crashed near Agustin Codazzi, in the department of Cesar, Colombia, late on Friday. The Colombian Air Force...

Protestors demonstrate in solidarity of migrants in Folkestone, Britain, yesterday, Calais, France: French police said yesterday that around 300 migrants in Calais attempted...

Egypt prolongs role in Saudi-led Yemen coalition Cairo:  Egypt extended yesterday its participation in the Saudi-led Arab coalition carrying out air strikes on...

Residents fill containers with water in Aleppo’s eastern district of Tariq Al Bab, Syria, yesterday. Beirut: Nearly 40 government and opposition fighters have...

Talia, the sister of 14-year-old Palestinian Laith Khaldi, mourns during the funeral of her brother who died of his wounds after he was...

Iraqis shout slogans during a demonstration against power cuts and water shortages in Basra yesterday. Basra: Hundreds of Iraqis demonstrated yesterday in the...

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for early elections if efforts to form a coalition yield no results after the ruling...

Myanmar rescue workers assist victims with their cattle to flee flooded areas near Thayet township of Magway Region Yangon: The toll from flash...