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  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) encouraged Bangladesh on Saturday to use the more than $553 million it has provided...

  Le Bourget, France: The G77 bloc of 134 developing nations, including China, gave the nod Saturday for a hard-fought UN climate rescue pact...

  Kiev: The pro-Russian leader of a rebel militia in eastern Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bombing Saturday in the breakaway eastern...

French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius (C), President-designate of COP21 and Christiana Figueres (L), Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate...

Frank Sinatra   Hoboken: Frank Sinatra's hometown on Saturday dedicated a plaque in his honor, capping celebrations of the singing legend's centennial year despite...

Seoul: Two days of rare, high-level talks between North and South Korea aimed at easing cross-border tensions broke up Saturday with no agreement...

Christine Lagarde   Washington: Words must be put into action to save the planet, IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned, after envoys from 195 nations...

Gurdial Singh Nijar   Le Bourget: India, China and Saudi Arabia are all "happy" with a planned 195-nation agreement to slash greenhouse gas emissions,...

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal   Washington: Donald Trump hit back at a Saudi Arabian fellow billionaire after the prince branded him a disgrace and...

Jacob Zuma   By Tiisetso Motsoeneng JOHANNESBURG:  South African President  on Saturday denied rumours he had an affair with the chairwoman of state-owned airline...

Embassy of Switzerland in Nigeria Stockholm: A Swedish migration officer on assignment in West Africa was remanded in custody for serious bribery and...

The Hague: A brutally honest new graphic novel autobiography by a young Dutch artist is set to make waves as it tells of...

Brigi Rafini NIAMEY,: Niger will audit its electoral register ahead of a presidential election in February 2016 following demands from opposition parties, Prime...

  Geneva: Swiss authorities said Saturday that two people of Syrian origin had been arrested on suspicion of transporting "explosives and toxic gases" as...

Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh Banjul, Gambia: The president of the Gambia has declared his country is now "an Islamic state," his office said...

A search and rescue team works at the site of the landing of the Soyuz TMA-17M capsule that carried three flight engineers back...

Syrians gather at the scene of one of two car bomb attacks in Governm,ent controlled areas ofHoms, Syria, 12 December 2015.   Damascus: A...

  CAIRO: Two police officers were sentenced on Saturday to five years in jail by an Egyptian court for torturing a lawyer to death...