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Islamabad:  Pakistan's World Cup cricket hero Imran Khan will be sworn in as prime minister next week, his party said Friday, announcing it...

Prosecutors for Special Counsel Robert Mueller were expected to offer their final four witnesses at the bank and tax fraud trial of Paul...

Kinshasa: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday praised Joseph Kabila, the outgoing DR Congo head of state, for his "respect for the...

Beni, DR Congo, Ten people have died in an outbreak of Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a toll issued...

Paris, Reporters Without Borders said it had restored its website in Egypt on Friday, exactly one year after it was blocked by the...

LISBON, Portuguese firefighters have put out a huge fire that devastated the forested hills in the southern Algarve tourist region, the head of...

Tokyo, Former Japanese defence minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday announced a long-shot bid to unseat Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as leader of the...

Phnom Penh, Hackers targeted the official Facebook page of Cambodia's premier Hun Sen on Friday and falsely claimed he would cede several parliamentary...

Lagos, Thirteen people burnt to death when a bus burst into flames after a head-on collision with a digger near Nigeria's oil hub...

GENEVA, A heat wave in North Korea has led to rice, maize and other crops withering in the fields, "with potentially catastrophic effects",...

GAZA/JERUSALEM, The Israel-Gaza border was quiet on Friday after an Egyptian-brokered truce ended a surge in violence that had shaken southern Israel and...

Ghazni, Afghanistan,  US forces launched airstrikes Friday to counter a major Taliban assault on an Afghan provincial capital, where terrified residents cowered in...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo picked Ma’ruf Amin, the head of the nation’s influential clerics’ council, as his running mate for next year’s election,...

JOHANNESBURG:  Zimbabwe president said Thursday he had intervened for the release of a top opposition figure arrested a day earlier. Tendai Biti, a...

GENEVA: The Swiss government regrets the “deteriorating” situation regarding sanctions imposed by the United States on Iran, but recommends Swiss firms pursue their...

New Delhi:  At least 26 people were killed and tens of thousands displaced on Thursday as heavy rain lashed different parts of south...

New Delhi:  Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused the Modi government of being anti-Dalit. BJP President Amit Shah hit back saying the...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan:  Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday bowed to opposition party demands to form a parliamentary commission to probe allegations of vote-rigging in...