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Raipur/Hyderabad: Eight Maoists including a local commander and five women were killed in a fierce gun battle with police in a dense forest in...

Tunis: Tunisia's government backs a plan for German forces to come to the country to train troops from neighbouring Libya for the fight against IS...

Baghdad: A senior Iraqi army officer and seven others were killed overnight when IS militants attacked a military headquarters near the town of Haditha,...

Geneva/Berlin: The United Nations will begin the next round of Syria peace talks on March 9, UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told Reuters on Tuesday. Also...

London: Britain floated revised legislation on Tuesday that would grant authorities wide-ranging surveillance powers including the right to see which...

Harare: Zimbabwe's former vice president Joice Mujuru launched a new party to challenge her ally-turned-adversary Robert Mugabe, promising to revive the...

Kuala Lumpur: Deposits into Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's bank accounts ran to hundreds of millions of dollars more than previously identified...

London: French scientists say they have proved a link between the Zika virus and a nerve syndrome called Guillain-Barre, suggesting countries hit by the...

Cairo: An Egyptian forensics official has told the public prosecutor's office the autopsy he conducted on an Italian student showed he was interrogated...

Manila: The Philippines' election commission on Tuesday said it may bar local broadcasts of boxing icon Manny Pacquiao's bid to win back the world...