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Islamabad: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Islamabad Wednesday to meet new Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying he was hoping to...

Dhaka: Motorcyclists without helmets will be barred from buying fuel at filling stations in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, police said. The move is...

GULFPORT, Miss.: Thousands of people were without power as Tropical Storm Gordon made landfall late Tuesday just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border. The...

Berlin: German news agency dpa is reporting that hundreds of police have entered a forest that protesters are trying to stop from being...

Tokyo: A major airport that was cut off when a huge typhoon smashed through its sole access road was being evacuated Wednesday, as...

LONDON: Former Bank of England governor Mervyn King said the United Kingdom was probably heading towards a 'Brexit in name only' because the...

SEOUL: South Korean envoys held talks in North Korea on Wednesday to finalise details on a third North-South summit to be held this...

Manila: A Philippine mayor on President Rodrigo Duterte's list of allegedly narcotics-linked officials was shot dead in his own office on Wednesday, police...

WASHINGTON/OTTAWA: Canada heads into talks in Washington on Wednesday to renew NAFTA determined not to back down on key issues despite threats from...

RAMALLAH, Palestine:  Several Palestinian journalists suffered from teargas after Israeli forces dispersed a protest in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on...

CAIRO: Police on Tuesday arrested a man carrying a crude explosive device near the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt's capital, according...

Shares of Nike Inc fell nearly 2 percent on Tuesday as calls for a boycott of the sportswear giant gained traction on social...

NEW DELHI:  Indian police say a highway overpass has collapsed in the crowded city of Calcutta, but there was no immediate word on...

BENGHAZI, Libya: The death toll from fighting between rival armed groups in Libya's capital Tripoli has climbed to at least 50 people including...

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron was hit by a second resignation in a week on Tuesday as his sports minister quit, forcing him...

Brussels: The EU ombudsman on Tuesday savaged the rushed and murky procedure that saw Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's chief of staff promoted to...

Jos, Nigeria, Nineteen people have been killed and scores of homes burnt in fresh violence in central Nigeria, police said, after weeks of...

Tokyo: A powerful typhoon blew through western Japan on Tuesday, causing heavy rain to flood the region's main offshore international airport and high...