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WASHINGTON: China is using espionage to acquire technologies to fuel its fast-paced military modernization program, the Pentagon said on Monday in an annual report...

New Delhi: Notwithstanding sanctions against Iran, India is set to scale up economic and commercial engagement with it with proposals for joint investment in...

ROME: Giulio Andreotti, Italy's former seven-time Prime Minister and one of the country's most prominent post-war figures, has died at the age of 94, family...

DHAKA: At least 22 people were killed as Bangladeshi police fought pitch battles with tens of thousands of hardline Islamists in the capital Dhaka,...

NEW DELHI: India and China on Monday began withdrawing troops from a disputed area in the Himalayas to resolve a row that had strained...

SAN FRANCISCO: In the United States‚ at least 5 people have been killed and 4 others injured in a road accident in San Francisco.

SYRIA: Opposition groups say government forces attacked Beyda town with rockets before entering the area and conducting mass executions.Meanwhile‚ Syrian State TV says Israeli...

GHENT, Belgium: A train carrying chemicals derailed and caught on fire in the northwestern city of Ghent, Belgium, causing nearly 300 people to be...

KABUL: Five US soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Saturday, provincial officials said."Five American soldiers were...

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday appointed James F Dobbins, a veteran US diplomat with a history of difficult assignments from...