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UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has assured United Nations of taking all steps to facilitate Afghan peace process.“Pakistan has taken all possible measures to facilitate the...

JAKARTA: About 200 prisoners escaped from a maximum security prison in Indonesia's fourth-largest city, Medan, late on Thursday after a protest over a lack...

DUJIANGYAN, CHINA: At least 31 more persons have been killed and 166 missing in flooding in western part of China due to heavy rains.Flooding...

KABUL: A helicopter operated by the US-led coalition forces has completely been destroyed after crashing in the troubled Baghlan province of Afghanistan, local sources...

CAIRO: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has vowed to continue its "peaceful" resistance against the country's military until ousted Islamist President Muhammad Morsi is reinstated, as...

WASHINGTON: US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan James Dobbins has said President Barack Obama is still mulling a range of options for the...

BRASILIA: Tens of thousands of workers across Brazil have walked off their jobs in a nationwide strike demanding better working conditions and improved public...

WASHINGON: Microsoft cooperated with the United States to give the National Security Agency (NSA) access to the internet giant's encrypted data, news leaks by...

NEW YORK: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon declared to observe July 12 as the Malala Day as Swat’s Gul Makai, Malala Yousufzai turns...

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned Myanmar that it must end Buddhist attacks on minority Muslims in the country's west if it...