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Beirut: Syrian or Russian air strikes killed more than a dozen people and severely damaged a hospital in and around a town in rebel-held Idlib province on...

Tokyo: Schoolyard bullying has long bedeviled Japan where some students have taken their own lives after being harassed in person or online through emails,...

Washington: The United States on Monday blacklisted 271 employees of a Syrian government agency it said was responsible for developing chemical weapons,...

Caracas: Venezuelans erected barricades with garbage and even bathtubs on Monday and snarled traffic with mass "sit-ins" along major thoroughfares...

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives are on track to win the majority of parliamentary seats in Wales for the first time in more...

Beijing/Seoul: Chinese President Xi Jinping called for all sides to exercise restraint on Monday in a telephone call about North Korea with U.S. President...

Erbil (Iraq): High on a rocky outcrop, just 50 miles from the fighting that is wrecking historic sites across Iraq, workers are busy laying out floor tiles,...

Kabul: Afghanistan's defence minister and army chief of staff resigned on Monday after the deadliest ever Taliban attack on a military base, threatening...

Athens: At least 15 people, including a child, drowned when an inflatable boat carrying refugees and migrants sank off Greece's Lesbos island, officials...

Bengaluru: India has moved a step closer to its maiden mission to Venus with its space agency ISRO announcing that proposals have been sought for...