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Guangzhou (China): Every week, scientists in southern China release 3 million bacteria-infected mosquitoes on a 3km (two-mile) long island in a bid to wipe...

New Delhi: As the government circulated copies of the draft Constitution Amendment Bill to bring Goods and Services Tax (GST) among MPs, top Congress...

Geneva/Juba: Tens of thousands of people have fled a fresh outbreak of violence in South Sudan, reporting mass killings, looting and forced recruitment of...

Ankara: Turkey has taken over factories and shipyards that had been under control of the military general staff as part of a wide-ranging shake-up of the...

Chicago: The state of Florida has identified 10 more cases of Zika virus caused by local mosquitoes and has asked the US Centers for Disease Control and...

New Delhi: The flood situation in Assam and Bihar remained grim with 15 more deaths reported on Monday, even as two persons died and three others are feared...

Sirte (Libya): US planes bombed IS targets in Libya on Monday, responding to the UN-backed government's request to help push the militants from their...

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi ordered an investigation on Monday into allegations of corruption in weapons deals that risk re-igniting a...

California: Crews battling a deadly wildfire that has gutted dozens of homes near California's Big Sur coast looked forward to cooler weather to help...

Oslo: Some fish may cope with the changing chemistry of the oceans linked to global warming by permanently setting their body defences to night-time levels,...