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Tough battle for India's Modi in key state polls 04 Apr 2016 - 10:01 am

File picture of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi Kolkata: Millions of voters head to the polls Monday in two Indian states, with Prime...

Don't trust Trump, Atlantic City critics warn America 04 Apr 2016 - 09:53 am

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks out into the audience at a campaign rally in West Allis, Wisconsin, United States, April 3,...

Last surviving Plains Indian war chief dies in US 04 Apr 2016 - 09:49 am

File picture of Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow High Bird. JEWEL SAMAD/AFP Washington: Joe Medicine Crow, the last surviving Plains Indian war chief --...

23 percent turnout in first two hours of Bengal polls 04 Apr 2016 - 09:40 am

Kolkata: Around 23 percent polling was reported in the first two hours in the first phase of the West Bengal assembly elections that...

Squatters barrier to protecting Delhi's ancient monuments 04 Apr 2016 - 09:31 am

New Delhi: In the crypt of a 16th-century nationally protected tomb in New Delhi, a family is busy preparing a meal in their...

Drought-hit Palau could dry up totally this month 04 Apr 2016 - 09:29 am

Palau is expecting water outage in next few weeks. Koror, Palau: Drought-stricken Palau could dry up completely this month, officials warned Monday as...

Boat returning migrants from Greece arrives in Turkey 04 Apr 2016 - 09:19 am

Greek and EU flags float as a Turkish catamaran taking the first group of migrants to Turkey leaves the port of Chios early...

Eight dead, three of them children, in Siberia fire 04 Apr 2016 - 09:11 am

Moscow: Eight people, three of them children, died when a timber house in a Siberian village was engulfed by fire Sunday, investigators said....

Colombian navy seizes more than one tonne of cocaine 04 Apr 2016 - 09:10 am

A Colombian navy sailor stands guard inside a patrol boat during a media visit to the navy base in Cartagena in this file...

Djibouti's strategic position draws world's armies 04 Apr 2016 - 09:00 am

A navy soldier (L) of People's Liberation Army (PLA) stands guard as Chinese citizens board the naval ship "Linyi" at a port in...

Seven dead after car plunges off Cambodian river ferry 04 Apr 2016 - 08:59 am

File picture of a river in Cambodia. Phnom Penh: Seven people including five children drowned in Cambodia when a car packed with passengers...

Panama Papers: huge tax leak exposes Putin aides, world leaders 04 Apr 2016 - 08:49 am

A file picture shows lightning striking a building in Panama City,Panama. EPA Paris: A massive leak of 11.5 million documents has exposed the...

Coalition planes destroy Islamic State-occupied Turkish consulate in Mosul: Ministry 04 Apr 2016 - 08:48 am

ANKARA: Aircraft from a U.S.-led coalition on Monday destroyed the Turkish consulate compound in Mosul in northern Iraq which has been occupied by...

Greece sends first migrants back to Turkey under EU deal 04 Apr 2016 - 08:35 am

Migrants are deported to Turkey from the port of Mytilene on April 4, 2016. AFP / ARIS MESSINIS Lesbos: Greece sent a first...

Peru's Fujimori signs pledge to avoid authoritarian ways of father 04 Apr 2016 - 08:31 am

Peruvian presidential candidate for the Fuerza Popular (Popular Force) party, and daughter of imprisoned former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, Keiko Fujimori, shows the...

Brazil's president makes final plea to impeachment committee 04 Apr 2016 - 08:09 am

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff attends a signing ceremony of land expropriation for agrarian reform and granting slave descendants, or Quilombolas, titles to their...

Syrian opposition makes gains against IS in N. Aleppo 04 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

Smoke rises after US-led coalition carried out airstrikes on IS terrorists' positions as Syrian oppositions took the control of two villages from IS...