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London: The British government's Northern Ireland minister warned on Tuesday that an early election in the province was highly likely following the...

Islamabad: News about General Raheel Sharif poised to head a Saudi-led military alliance to combat terror has sparked a debate in Pakistan with the Senate...

Abidjan: Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara named former prime minister Daniel Kablan Duncan as vice president, a new post created under a...

Kabul: A new tax regime aimed at weaning Afghanistan off international aid has boosted government revenues but drawn complaints from some private businesses...

Manila: Armed men killed eight fishermen in what appeared to be an attack by pirates in dangerous waters in the southern Philippines, a coast guard...

Nishinomiya: Thousands of men and women raced through the grounds of a Shinto shrine in west Japan early on Tuesday in the annual "Lucky Man Run",...

Beijing: President Xi Jinping this month will become the first Chinese head of state to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, as the foreign ministry on...

Dubai: Hundreds of thousands of Iranians massed in central Tehran on Tuesday for the funeral of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani, who...

Bangkok: Flash floods in southern Thailand washed out a bridge on the country's main north-south highway on Tuesday, backing up traffic for 200 km (125...