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Chennai: AIADMK General Secretary V K Sasikala suffered a huge setback in the tussle for Tamil Nadu chief ministership as Governor C Vidyasagar...

Beijing: China is investigating seven people, mostly security officials, in the restive deep south of troubled Xinjiang region on suspicion of graft, the...

Jakarta: Twelve Indonesians, including three children, have been killed on the holiday island of Bali after landslides triggered by heavy rains engulfed several...

NAIROBI: Kenya said yesterday it was declaring a drought in the east African economy a national disaster, saying it had affected 23 out...

Bangkok: Thai authorities are trying to clean up a massive, one-kilometre long tangle of trash, officials said yesterday, calling it the largest garbage...

Misrata: Islamic State militants have shifted to desert valleys and inland hills southeast of Tripoli as they seek to exploit Libya's political divisions...

Bangkok: A prominent student activist was indicted yesterday in the first royal defamation case brought under Thailand's new monarch, his lawyer said, after...

Kabul: The Afghan Defence Ministry welcomed yesterday suggestions by the commander of international forces in Afghanistan that more troops were needed to train...

Sydney: Major energy users in Australia shut down yesterday, and the public were asked not to go home and cook or watch television,...

Islamabad: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) of Islamabad yesterday issued perpetual warrants of arrest for former president retired General Pervez Musharraf in the case...

Manila: The leader of the Philippines' communist insurgency has called on President Rodrigo Duterte to revive collapsed peace talks as his rebels launched...

Warsaw: Environmental groups are to complain to the European Union about dangerous levels of air pollution, accusing government departments and local authorities of...

Kabul: The death toll from avalanches and freezing weather conditions across Afghanistan has risen to 191, officials said yesterday, as rescue operations were...

Madrid: Several former officials from Spain’s ruling Popular Party (PP) and businessmen close to the grouping were sentenced from three to 13 years...

The Hague: Dutch police said they discovered nine migrants hiding in a refrigerated truck near the country’s border with Belgium, after one of...

Copenhagen, Denmark: A Danish prosecutor said a 16-year-old girl has been formally charged with planning bomb attacks against two schools in Denmark. Prosecutor...

Madrid:  A lighting contractor has turned himself in to the police and returned jewels worth some €30,000 ($32,000) missing since last weekend from...

Moscow: Russia’s Constitutional Court yesterday ordered a review of the conviction of prominent anti-Kremlin activist Ildar Dadin and said a law that criminalised...