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China’s city of Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province, has sealed off some areas as Covid-19 cases continue to jump in the country’s...

PARIS: France's foreign minister heads to Turkey on Monday to emphasise to Ankara the importance of its firms not circumventing Western sanctions on...

Oman's capital Muscat has been hit by a power blackout, among several other provinces, but electricity will be restored gradually in about four...

LONDON: Britain’s Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party’s new leader, putting her in line to be confirmed as...

Kenya's Supreme Court on Monday upheld the Aug. 9 election of William Ruto as president in a unanimous decision, Chief Justice Martha Koome...

STOCKHOLM: A Swedish court said on Monday it had found two film makers guilty of disturbing the wreck of the ferry Estonia, which...

Gold was steady as mounting concerns over a worsening energy crisis in Europe drove investors to the greenback over the euro. Europe’s currency...

Beijing: A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck China's Sichuan province on Monday, the strongest to hit the region since 2017, killing at least seven...

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Pakistani authorities are struggling to prevent the country's biggest lake bursting its banks and inundating nearby towns after unprecedented flooding, while the...

Chinaaccused a US spy agency of hacking a government-funded university with aeronautics and space research programs, in Beijing’s latest effort to his back...

Kabul: Two Russian embassy staff in Kabul were killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives near the entrance of the embassy, in a...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said on Monday a constitutional amendment bill trimming presidential powers is expected to become law in...

BENGALURU: Large parts of India's tech capital Bengaluru were under water on Monday after torrential rains uprooted trees, caused crippling traffic and forced...

London: Liz Truss is expected to be named leader of the governing Conservative Party and Britain's next prime minister on Monday, poised to...

European shares tumbled on Monday after Russia extended a halt on gas flows down the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Europe, sparking worries...

TOKYO: Japan's Toyota Motor Corp will suspend some evening shifts at three plants in western Japan due to an approaching typhoon, it said...

JAKARTA: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr met with his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo on Monday for a state visit focused on bolstering defence,...

Poland will attempt rapprochement with Hungary after a falling out earlier this year over the war in Ukraine, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said....