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Hukoumiya (Syria)/Beirut: The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Tuesday it had launched a battle to capture Raqqa, IS's de facto Syrian...

Chirpan (Bulgaria): A team of excavators in Bulgaria has resumed a search for fossils of an ape-like creature which may be the oldest-known direct ancestor...

Sanjose: Puerto Rico on Monday declared that the 2016 Zika epidemic is over, saying transmission of the virus that can cause birth defects when pregnant...

New Delhi: The Income Tax Department has issued fresh summons to Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad's MP daughter Misa Bharti in connection with its...

New Delhi: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the country's growth has slowed down mainly because of demonetisation and the economy is...

Washington: David Rank, the chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, has left the State Department over the Trump administration's...

Washington: A kiss from a colorful reef fish called a tubelip wrasse is no one's idea of romance, being so full of slime and suction, but it is...

Hong Kong: African rangers detailed harrowing first-hand tales of elephant poaching at a public hearing in Hong Kong on Tuesday, the latest attempt to halt...

Melbourne: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Tuesday police were treating a deadly siege in the city of Melbourne as an "act of...