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  Peshawar, Pakistan: A roadside bomb attack on Wednesday killed at least three people including two children in a restive Pakistani region near the...

  MAKASSAR, Indonesia: Indonesian navy will dispatch warships to join the search for 70 people still missing after a passenger boat sank Saturday in...

representational purpose   Mogadishu: Somalia's government has banned celebrations of Christmas and New Year in the Muslim majority country, saying the festivities might attract...

Lucknow, India: Indian police Wednesday formally charged 15 suspects over the mob murder of a Muslim man suspected of eating beef in late...

Sri Lankan deputy foreign minister Harsha de Silva (L) interacts with Minister of Foreign Employment Thalatha Athukorala during a press conference in Colombo...

  Nairobi: Burundi's rebels came together Wednesday for the first time as a force aimed at ousting President Pierre Nkurunziza, after months of deadly...

Beirut: More than two-thirds of Syrian refugees in Lebanon live in extreme poverty, according to a United Nations study published Wednesday, up nearly...

Stella Creasy   London: Prime Minister David Cameron was urged to intervene Wednesday after a British Muslim family was prevented from flying to the...

Members of the Saudi Shura Council, attend a session chaired by he Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz in...

Nairobi: Burundi faces mounting regional pressure to accept an African Union peacekeeping force, diplomats said Wednesday, with the issue a key point of...

Rwanda president Paul Kagame   Kigali: Rwanda will not contribute troops to a peacekeeping mission in neighbouring Burundi, President Paul Kagame said, as he...

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates does not plan to tax the incomes of individuals or remittances abroad by foreign workers in the country,...

China's new anti-terror law, set to pass at the end of the month, has raised concern among Western countries. REUTERS   CHINA: Technology companies...

File photo of Selahattin Demirtas, opposition leader of Turkey   MOSCOW: Turkey's political leadership was wrong to order the shooting down of a Russian...

  BAGHDAD: Eight senior Islamic State commanders were killed in air strikes by the Iraqi airforce, Iraqi state TV reported on Wednesday citing a...

DUBAI: Oman's Shura Council, a top advisory body to the government, has voted for the biggest increases in corporate taxes in many years...

Protesters march in support of migrant refugees at a rally in Sydney, Australia, on Sept. 12, 2015. AFP   Sydney: The Australian government on...

File photo of Malcolm Ranjith, the archbishop of Colombo   Colombo: The leader of Sri Lanka's Catholics urged priests on Wednesday not to put...