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MOSCOW: A Russian military MI-24 helicopter crashed in Syria on Dec. 31 due to a technical fault, killing both pilots, Russian news agencies...

PARIS: A new winter storm has cut power to 200,000 households in northern France and is set to move to other regions throughout...

Agra, India: India is to restrict the number of daily visitors to the Taj Mahal in an attempt to preserve the iconic 17th-century...

MUMBAI: Many businesses in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai closed on Wednesday as protesters from a low-caste community blocked traffic and shopping...

Bac Ninh, Vietnam:  A baby boy and a a five-year-old girl were killed and several people injured Wednesday when a cache of bullets...

Tehran, Tens of thousands gathered in cities across Iran on Wednesday in a massive show of support for the regime after days of...

Washington, A seven-month-old baby who went missing was found on the side of a road in the US city of Houston, authorities said....

United Nations, US President Donald Trump will go all out to cut off aid to Pakistan if it continues to back terrorists, US...

Taipei, Taiwan's top court has ordered a dentist to pay his mother around Tw$22.33 million (US$744,000) as reimbursement for the money she spent...

Quito, Ecuador's Vice President Jorge Glas lost his title late Tuesday because he has been absent for more than three months -- locked...

Washington, President Donald Trump admitted the Middle East peace process was in difficulty and threatened to cut aid to Palestinians worth more than...

Seoul, Pyongyang said Wednesday it will restore a hotline with the South at 0630 GMT, after Seoul proposed high-level talks in response to...

Jerusalem, The Palestinians will not be "blackmailed" by US President Donald Trump, a senior official said Wednesday, after he threatened to cut aid...

WASHINGTON:  The White House on Tuesday said it wanted to see Pakistan do more to fight terrorism and that it would likely announce...

Rio de Janeiro:  Nearly a hundred escaped inmates remained at large from a state penitentiary in Brazil Tuesday after a deadly riot between...

Washington:  The US television channel NBC said Tuesday it had appointed a female anchor to replace shamed star Matt Lauer, who was accused...

Madrid:  An activist group and the brother of an Algerian man who died in a Spanish jail used as a migrant centre called...

Kinshasa:  The death toll from a crackdown on New Year's Eve demonstrations in Democratic Republic of Congo rose to 12, protestors said on...