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Vatican City: Pope Francis on Sunday offered a Christmas hope for peace in a world lacerated by war and terrorism, urging people to remember migrants,...

Sandringham (England): Britain's Queen Elizabeth, 90, missed a traditional Christmas church service on Sunday for the first time in decades due to a...

Karachi: Pakistan released 220 Indian fishermen on Sunday as a goodwill gesture aimed at easing tensions with its neighbour, officials said. The men were...

Jakarta: Indonesian police killed two suspected militants in a house in West Java on Sunday, a police spokesman said, in the latest in a series of raids...

Bamako/Paris: A French-Swiss aid worker has been kidnapped in the city of Gao in northern Mali, and French and Malian authorities are working together to...

Kinshasa: An ethnic Nande militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 13 Hutu civilians on Sunday with guns and machetes in an apparent...

Seoul: South Korea's special prosecutor investigating a corruption scandal involving President Park Geun-hye said on Sunday it was considering whether...

Beijing: China's largely rubber-stamp parliament passed a law on Sunday that will levy specific environmental protection taxes on industry for the first...

New Delhi: Vowing to carry forward the war against corruption and black money post-demonetisation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the...

Islamabad: Pakistan's former president Asif Ali Zardari has returned to the country, ending his 18-month- long self-imposed exile, amidst speculations...