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Bashiqa (Iraq): Abbas Ali wept as his wife slowly pushed him in his wheelchair out of their village in northern Iraq, a risky escape along a route where IS...

Amman: The Syrian army and its allies seized a strategic area in the besieged rebel-held eastern Ghouta area of Damascus, tightening their grip on the...

Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Monday expressed happiness over the state's No 1 ranking in ease of doing business in...

Srinagar: Over 3O people, including three officers of security forces, were injured on Monday as intense clashes rocked a village in Pulwama district of...

London/Sirte (Libya): Western and some Middle Eastern powers expressed support on Monday for Libya's UN-brokered unity government and Prime Minister...

East of Mosul/Baghdad: Advancing Iraq troops broke through IS defence lines in an eastern suburb of Mosul on Monday, taking the battle for the insurgent...

Beirut: The Lebanese parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as president on Monday, ending a 29-month presidential vacuum. Saad Al Hariri is...

Paris: French riot police swooped on an illegal migrant camp in northeastern Paris just after dawn on Monday, sparking a brief standoff at a site where...

Madrid: Mariano Rajoy was sworn in for a second term as Spain's prime minister on Monday but may struggle to form a cabinet that can overcome scars left...

Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday blocked the execution of a paranoid schizophrenic murder convict pending a review of an earlier ruling...