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New Delhi: Blazing heat stifled east, central and peninsular India on Friday with Odisha and Telangana reporting seven more sunstrokes deaths even as a...

Beirut: Syria called local truces near Damascus and in a northern province on Friday but no halt to combat on the main battlefield in Aleppo, after a surge...

New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned former Indian Air Force (IAF) chief S. P. Tyagi in connection with its money laundering probe in the Rs...

Ankara: Iranians voted in a second round of parliamentary elections on Friday, with allies of reformist President Hassan Rouhani seeking to wrest more seats...

Tunis: Political divisions in Tunisia's ruling coalition risk undermining economic reforms and paralysing the government as it tries to revive the...

Algiers: Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 79, has returned to Algiers after a brief visit to Geneva for medical checkups, his latest since a...

New Delhi: With the mercury soaring, water stock in 91 major reservoirs across the country has plunged to 21 per cent of their total capacity, Indian...

Oslo: A helicopter ferrying passengers from a Norwegian oil platform crashed in the North Sea on Friday, killing at least 11 of the 13 people on board,...

Vatican City: US Vice President Joe Biden took his crusade against cancer to the Vatican on Friday and heard Pope Francis call for an "economic...

Paris: French riot police arrested 27 people during overnight clashes with dozens of youths in central Paris, following a day of protest marches over labour...