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New York is the world’s most competitive city, study found; London ranked second, Singapore third

NEW YORK: New York is a competitive, competitive town. This we know. Some of this competitiveness is healthy. Some of it is ridiculous. People...

Five killed in two car bombs in Iraq

BAGHDAD: At least five people were killed in two car bombs, one in a Baghdad Shiite neighborhood and the other targeting an Iraqi police...

Three NATO soldiers killed in apparent insider attack in eastern Afghanistan

KABUL: Three NATO-led soldiers were killed when a man in an Afghan government army uniform fired at them in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Paktika...

UN to send food aid to North Korea

SEOUL: The UN is preparing to send 206,800 tons of food aid to North Korea, Yonhap news agency reported. Aid prepared by the World Food...

Barack Obama defends US surveillance programmes

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has staunchly defended US government programmes conducting surveillance of Americans' phone and Internet activity, insisting that they were conducted with...

Nelson Mandela hospitalized in serious but stable condition

JOHANNESBURG: Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to a hospital because of a lung infection, the office of the President Jacob...

At least six dead in US rampage by black-clad gunman

LOS ANGELES: At least six people were killed in a shooting rampage in California on Friday before police shot and killed the black-clad gunman...

Texas woman arrested in connection with mailing ricin letters to President Obama

NEW BOSTON: A Texas woman has been arrested in connection with the mailing of three letters containing a form of the poison ricin to...

14 killed in car bombs in Iraq

BAGHDAD: At least 14 people including seven policemen were killed and dozens others were injured in a series of car bomb explosions in and...

Kerry to return to Mideast next week in further peace push: sources

JERUSALEM: US Secretary of State John Kerry is set to return to Israel and the Palestinian territories next week for his fifth visit to...

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