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  ISTANBUL: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday the Turkish military was in Iraq to ward off Islamic State, reiterating that Ankara...

  Ahmedabad: A geologist said Saturday his team has discovered what it believes are dinosaur fossils in the western Indian state of Gujarat that...

  Leaders face highest geopolitical risks in decades. European response to refugees elusive as states squabble. Traditional politicians powerless to stop populist tide.   By...

Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias (pictured) said Friday his party hoped to form an alliance with the Socialists and the United Left, a green-communist...

File photo   Kathmandu: Nepal's parliament voted on Saturday to amend the country's new constitution in a bid to resolve a months-long dispute with...

  Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala's Excise Minister K. Babu on Saturday handed over his resignation to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, after a court ordered a case...

  By Vikas Datta Jaipur: Writers, like Saadat Hasan Manto, brought out the horrors of Partition much more vividly than historians, but the need...

Apparently unused to dealing with the aftermath of a protester killing himself, the BJP has made the situation worse for itself by taking...

  UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday voiced  concern about Haiti’s decision to delay its presidential election and urged the country...

A Swiss army soldier patrols downtown Davos. Five soldiers have been sent home after testing positive for cocaine use. Photograph: Ruben Sprich/Reuters   ZURICH:...

  Madrid: Outgoing conservative Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Saturday warned the Socialists they risked giving hard left group Podemos the whip hand...

  Park City, United States: US actor Robert Redford refused to be drawn into the Oscars race controversy Thursday as the Sundance Film Festival...

  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik   ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Pakistani army said on Saturday the four gunmen who attacked a university in northwest Pakistan were trained...

  COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has launched an investigation into allegations that a group of surgeons ran a racket trading human kidneys, the health ministry...

Riyadh: King Salman bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia Custodian of the Two Holly Mosques met Saturday with US Secretary of State John...

  Tunis:  Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid pleaded Saturday for people to be "patient" after a wave of protests against poverty and unemployment in...

      Beirut: At least 29 civilians were killed in air strikes suspected to have been carried by Russian warplanes on a village in eastern...

  Tehran: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani is to visit Italy and France next week to boost economic ties, in his first European tour since...