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Chandigarh:  Former Punjab Chief Minister, Union Minister and Governor of Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and Andhra Pradesh Surjit Singh Barnala died here on Saturday...

Beijing: A roast duck vendor has died of bird flu in central China, the official Xinhua news agency said yesterday, the latest human...

Shanghai: Indian banker and New Development Bank chief (NDB) K V Kamath has said that cooperation between the five BRICS countries will be...

Bucharest: THE deputy chief of Romania’s intelligence service Florian Coldea was suspended from his job over alleged links with a fugitive media boss...

Parndorf, Austria: The gruesome discovery of 71 dead migrants in the summer of 2015 in an abandoned truck on a motorway near Austrian...

The Hague: Families of the MH17 plane disaster victims may push for a renewed search of the crash site in eastern Ukraine after...

Paris: A French judge charged the alleged mastermind of spectacular Paris heist in which five masked men robbed US reality TV television star...

Berlin: DIVISIONS appeared in the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party over a planned meeting of European right-wing populist parties next week, from...

Rome: AROUND 750 migrants making the perilous crossing to Europe were rescued from the Mediterranean, with two bodies also recovered, the Italian coastguard...

Paris: French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon tried to win over party critics at a meeting yesterday at a time when polls show...

Madrid: Five people with suspected links to Islamic State (IS) jihadists were arrested yesterday in separate incidents in Spain and Hungary, with several...

Walterboro, South Carolina: Neighbours knew them for years as mother and her polite teenage daughter before police swarmed Gloria Williams’ home in this...

New York: Hundreds of domestic cats have been quarantined in New York City after contracting a strain of highly contagious avian flu at...

Zagan, Poland: Polish authorities and ordinary Poles welcomed yesterday US troops which arrived this week as part of an unprecedented deployment to Nato’s...

Chicago: CHICAGO officials are pledging to revamp the city Police Department following a scathing federal report, but a change in administrations could spell...

Washington: The US House of Representatives yesterday joined the Senate in passing a critical measure that marks first major step toward repealing outgoing...

Panama City: Cuban migrants without papers must leave Panama now that the United States has stopped allowing them automatic entry if they set...

Sao Paulo: When beheaded, disemboweled corpses stacked up in Brazilian jails, it looked like bloody chaos caused by overcrowding. But experts see method...