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KARACHI, Pakistan: At least 10 people have been killed and 18 others injured in shelling by Indian forces along the dividing boundary of...

SEOUL: South Korea raised the country's bird flu alert status on Wednesday to its second-highest level following three more outbreaks of the highly...

SOFIA: Bulgarian prosecutors charged outgoing Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev on Wednesday over an agreement with NATO ally Poland for repairs of its Soviet-era...

CAIRO: Egypt’s embattled Muslim Brotherhood group has denied mediation by regional states to reach reconciliation with the regime of President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi. Local...

New Delhi: Six heavily armed Maoist rebels were killed Wednesday in a jungle gunbattle with police in eastern India, an officer said. Police...

Warri, Nigeria: Gunmen have killed four guards at a facility operated by the Nigerian subsidary of Italian group Eni, local and security officials...

Islamabad: At least nine people were killed and seven others wounded in cross-border fire which hit a Pakistani bus in disputed Kashmir on...

Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that a European Parliament vote set to back a freeze of membership talks with Ankara...

Jerusalem: A controversial Israeli bill to quiet the Muslim call to prayer is to go forward after it was amended so as not...

BEIJING: Seven miners remain trapped after a coal mine flooded in eastern China.  Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday that 21 miners were working...

KARACHI, Pakistan: With Pakistan’s popular army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif retiring next week, the capital Islamabad has become the playing field for a...

ANKARA: The Turkish Armed Forces hit nine Islamic State targets including four shelters and two command-and-control centers in northern Syria on Tuesday, according...

Rouen, France: A Frenchman who inherited a big house from a dead relative got more than he bargained for when he discovered a...

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that a vote by the European Parliament on whether to halt EU membership talks with...

BERLIN: Lufthansa pilots in Germany began a two-day strike on Wednesday, grounding hundreds of flights at one of Europe's largest carriers in a...

Phnom Penh: Cambodia's UN-backed court upheld life sentences for two top former Khmer Rouge leaders on Wednesday for crimes against humanity, in a...

ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will chair a meeting of the government's economic coordination committee on Wednesday, broadcasters said, the evening before the...

HERAT, Afghanistan: It is early morning in a saffron field outside the western Afghan city of Herat and dozens of women are harvesting...