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Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman   Mexico City: A meeting between US actor Sean Penn and Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in the Mexican jungle helped...

  Riyadh: Yemeni Vice President and Prime Minister Khaled Bahah discussed with UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed on Saturday...

  By Tarun Basu   In a tumultuous fortnight, during which many an illusion was shattered at the turn of the year, some home truths...

Kathmandu: Nepal was elected as a member of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) executive board on Saturday, representing the group of Asia-Pacific...

File photo of US Secretary of State John Kerry with Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif. Reuters    Islamabad: US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke...

File picture of President Pranab Mukherjee   Ranchi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday emphasised the need to improve international rankings of Indian institutions of...

Gaza: An Israeli naval boat, Saturday, opened heavy machine gun fire on Palestinian fishermen's boats, while sailing within the allowed fishing zone offshore...

Kashmiri mourners carry the coffin of the J&K CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed at his residence in Srinagar on January 7, 2016. AFP New...

New Delhi: Three siblings were burnt to death and another child suffered serious injuries in a fire that broke out in a slum...

Delhi government had announced a scheme, beginning January 1, for even numbered four-wheeled vehicles to ply on even numbered dates and vice-versa   New...

  Two people died and hundreds were injured during a huge religious festival in the Philippines, where barefoot crowds hurled themselves at a statue...

  Perth, Australia: Two people have died and more than a hundred homes have been destroyed in a huge bushfire, Australian authorities said Sunday,...

  Damascus: In his cramped workshop in Damascus, Mohammad Abdallah delicately etches away at wooden panels inlaid with mother-of-pearl, a craft he perfected over...

By Joseph Nasr and Matthias Inverardi COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - Riot police broke up far-right protesters in Cologne on Saturday as they marched...

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina:  In an embarrassment to President Mauricio Macri's young administration, Argentina's top police official said Saturday that only one of three...

  The white house where Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman hid is in a ritzy part of a Mexican seaside city, whose neighbors were stunned...

  OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea: A powerful U.S. B-52 bomber flew low over South Korea on Sunday, a clear show of force from...

  SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country conducted a hydrogen bomb test as a self-defensive step against a U.S. threat...