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Caracas: Venezuela’s opposition boycotted a meeting yesterday to discuss President Nicolas Maduro’s plan for a new popular assembly, preferring to protest in the...

SEOUL: The man tipped to be elected South Korea’s new president has said he wants to hire more firefighters, teachers and policemen, but...

Kuala Lumpur:  Malaysian customs officers have seized more than 700kg of pangolin scales, the country's largest haul of the scales considered by some...

SEOUL, South Korea: South Koreans voted Tuesday for a new president, with victory widely predicted for a liberal candidate who has pledged to...

Paris:  French President-elect Emmanuel Macron laid the groundwork yesterday for his transition to power, announcing a visit to Germany and a name change...

PARIS: Centrist Emmanuel Macron who was elected on Sunday to be France’s youngest leader since Napoleon mostly relied on a small group of...

Paris:  Far-right leader Marine Le Pen lost her bid to become France's first female head of state but she is unbowed, making plans...

Geneva:  Countries across the world put the Philippines on notice over its deadly drug war yesterday, demanding an end to extrajudicial killings by...

Manila:  Philippine and US troops kicked off yesterday annual joint exercises that are smaller in scale than in years past, focusing on disaster...

London:  Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the honorary freedom of the City of London yesterday, as a small group of demonstrators protested...

Tokyo:  India and Japan affirmed yesterday plans to strengthen their military cooperation amid rising tension in the Asian region. Indian Defence Minister Arun...

Kano, Nigeria:  Military pressure, in-fighting within Boko Haram and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's health combined to secure the release of 82 kidnapped Chibok...

Marine Le Pen and her anti-EU, pro-Russia, nativist philosophy were defeated decisively in French presidential elections, by an even bigger margin than pollsters...

Gaza City:  The new leader of Hamas made his first public appearance in the new role yesterday, visiting a solidarity tent in his...

SEOUL, South Korea: Two months after booting their sitting president over corruption allegations, South Koreans will select a new leader Tuesday after weeks...

New Delhi:  Gujarat gang-rape survivor Bilkis Bano yesterday said that after 15 years of indescribable struggle she is preparing for a new beginning...

ABUJA: Some of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted three years ago by Islamist Boko Haram militants refused to be part of a group of...

Mogadishu: At least six people were killed and about 10 injured Monday in a car bomb attack in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, a police...