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Beijing, China on Friday welcomed the historic announcement of a meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,...

Tokyo, A Japanese finance ministry official at the centre of cronyism allegations linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been found dead, local...

KABUL, An explosion believed to have been caused by a suicide bomber hit a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, a...

LONDON, The United States is taking the wrong approach by seeking tariffs on steel and aluminium imports and it would be "absurd" for...

CUCUTA, Colombia:  In a cramped hospital near Colombia's border with Venezuela, migrants fill stretchers bearing the wounds of the deteriorating nation they left...

Boa Vista, Brazil:  As soon as the traffic lights turn red, a swarm of young Venezuelans with sponges and plastic bottles of detergent...

LONDON:  Iran will not negotiate with the West over its presence in the Middle East, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday,...

PARIS:  A heated debate that has split French intellectual circles over whether to publish anti-Semitic pamphlets of a renowned writer will reach French...

JERUSALEM:  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that Israel may face early elections due to a coalition crisis. Speaking at the Economic Club...

JAKARTA, Indonesia: The national commission on violence against women in Indonesia has recorded an increase in gender-based violence, with 348,446 reported cases in...

BEIRUT: Rola Hiteit, 44, has succeeded in breaking the longstanding male monopoly on piloting planes in her native Lebanon.  For the last seven...

Harare: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday met with Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa and discussed possible military co-operation as well as...

MUMBAI: Sparkling in shades of green, pink and peach, Indian women survivors of acid attacks walked the ramp at a fashion show to...

Colombo: Sri Lankan police said petrol bombs were hurled at a mosque on Thursday as hundreds of troops patrolled a troubled central district...

NEW YORK: The second winter storm in a week will continue to dump wet, heavy snow on New England on Thursday, forcing schools...

London: A British police officer who was harmed by a nerve agent used in an attack on a Russian ex-spy is now able...

Hammuriyeh, Syria: Dozens of people were treated for breathing difficulties after air strikes slammed into Syria's Eastern Ghouta late Wednesday, a monitor said,...

Damascus: An aid convoy planned to bring assistance Thursday to besieged civilians in Syria's battered Eastern Ghouta will not go through, the International...