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Tokyo: A Japanese kindergarten known for its nationalist curriculum has apologised after coming under fire for hostile comments about Korean and Chinese parents....

Bali: Indonesian prosecutors sought eight-year prison sentences yesterday for a British man and an Australian woman accused of killing a police officer on...

Tokyo: A Japanese zoo has culled 57 native snow monkeys by lethal injection after finding that they carried genes of an "invasive alien...

Tangi:  At LEAST seven people were killed when multiple Taliban suicide bombers attacked a court complex in northern Pakistan yesterday, the latest in...

Rome: Hundreds of taxi drivers protested in Rome yesterday as a strike over delays to Italian legislation regulating Uber and car-hire services entered...

Islamabad: Pakistan Army has moved heavy artillery towards the Pak-Afghan border in Chaman and Torkham districts, security officials said yesterday. The move came...

Paris: French President Francois Hollande called yesterday on Britain to "accept its responsibility" to take in stranded under-age migrants stuck in France who...

Vienna: An Austrian court approved yesterday the extradition of Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash (pictured) to the United States in a bribery case, overturning...

Brussels: Germany and France want the European Union to weaken its human rights safeguards to allow for deportation of asylum seekers before their...

Vienna: Austria’s coalition government approved new employment rules yesterday to ensure workers already in the country are given priority for new jobs over...

BRUSSELS: U.S. President Donald Trump sent top U.S. officials to Europe with a familiar warning from Washington that allies must spend more on...

In a world inevitably multilateral such as ours, regional powers are supposed to have their share of responsibilities in order to build more...

Bucharest: Romania’s Lower House of parliament yesterday overwhelmingly endorsed a government order to scrap a graft decree that triggered mass street protests, international...

Edinburgh: Britain’s Secretary of State for Scotland will tell the Scottish parliament today that Scotland is leaving the EU whether or not it...

For the last several years it has been increasingly common to hear Israelis and Palestinians alike say that the two-state solution to their...

Barcelona:  Spanish police opened fire Tuesday on a truck loaded with gas cylinders that was speeding the wrong way down a Barcelona road,...

ANKARA: Turkey’s parliament on Tuesday stripped one of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) two leaders of her status as a member of...

Berlin:  Germany will increase its military to nearly 200,000 troops over the next seven years, the defence ministry said Tuesday, a day after...