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PYONGYANG: North Korea has urged the United States to stop military drills, with a warning that it may carry out retaliatory strikes if the...

PALERMO: A boat carrying more than 200 migrants has capsized between Sicily and Tunisia, killing at least 27 persons, the Italian coastguard said.The officials...

MOSCOW: Syrian militants are being trained in Afghanistan about how to use chemical weapons by a number of countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...

OSLO: The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for ‘extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons’.The...

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama and House of Representatives Republicans failed to reach a consensus finding a way forward to break their deadlock over...

STOCKHOLM: The 82-year-old Canadian Alice Munro won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for her short stories that focus on the frailties...

STRASBOURG: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot on a school bus by the Taliban last October for campaigning on the education of...

TRIPOLI: Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been released, hours after he was kidnapped by a rebel-controlled Interior Ministry, state-run news agency said.Earlier in...

NEW DELHI: A truck carrying Hindu pilgrims crashed into a gorge in northern India on Thursday when its driver lost control of the vehicle...

WASHINGTON: The United States has said that it is suspending a large part of its military and other cash aid to Egypt.In a statement,...