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Abuja: Over 2.1 million people are internally displaced in northeast Nigeria after a spike in a six-year insurgency by the Boko Haram group,...

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday lauded the contribution of the Czech people during World War II in a meeting with the country’s...

KABUL: Rahim Khan’s return to Afghanistan 28 years after fleeing to Pakistan was not the homecoming he had dreamed of. The 60-year-old is...

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani (centre) poses for a photograph with foreign delegation at the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference of Afghanistan in Kabul, yesterday.

Police wields baton-charge at protesting members of the Nishad community in Patnaa, yesterday.   Patna: At least 50 people, including 12 police officers, were...

  New Delhi: The Delhi High Court yesterday asked New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to apprise it on what basis it decided to change...

New Delhi: Nestle India Chief Suresh Narayanan yesterday said the Indian arm of the company is trying to get Maggi noodles back into...

  New Delhi: “I am just your Mukherjee sir. I am not the president of India or a politician now. I would be happy...

New Delhi: Rejecting criticism that it was acting like a "remote control", the RSS said yesterday that the Narendra Modi government was on...

Former Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills (centre) speaks to the media after she testified before a House committee hearing that is investigating the...

Guatemalan President Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre (centre) receives military honours during a ceremony in Guatemala City yesterday. Guatemala’s Congress swore in vice president Maldonado...

    Gunman had tried to infiltrate a security forces site when he was spotted by policemen RIYADH: A Saudi policeman and a gunman were...

    David Cameron, Prime Minister of Britain    LONDON: Prime Minister of Britain David Cameron on Friday promised that his administration will accept thousands more...

VIENNA: Some 2,200 people had joined a social media campaign in Austria by Friday afternoon to organise a convoy of private cars and...

    BAHRAIN: Bahrain announced Friday that five of its soldiers were killed in southern Saudi Arabia where they had been posted to help defend...

    The last quarantined village was reopened by Sierra Leone's president in August (AFP)   FREETOWN: A village of almost 1,000 people has been placed...

Father of Aylan Kurdi, (also know as Aylan Shenu), a three-year-old boy whose drowning off Turkey, holds the body of his child during...

The UAE says 22 of its soldiers have been killed fighting alongside a Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen (File Photo) ABU DHABI:...