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

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

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...

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

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

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

WASHINGTON: Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in California for a meeting with US President Barack Obama.The China-US summit scheduled to be held on...

MOSCOW: Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday warned against ‘speculations and provocation’ surrounding claims that Syrian forces used chemical weapons against militants, saying that...

MOSCOW: Russian navy will deploy about 10 warships to the Mediterranean Sea on a permanent basis, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday."The operational...

YENAGOA: Five Pakistani crew members, who were kidnapped from an oil tanker off the Nigerian coast two weeks ago, have been released by Pirates,...