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YANGON: At least two persons were killed on Thursday during communal violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Mandalay city of Myanmar, a country shaken...

NEW DELHI: In response to reports that the US spy agency was allowed in 2010 to carry out surveillance on the Bharatiya Janata Party...

NAIROBI, Kenya: A Fokker 50 cargo plane crashed into a two-storey commercial building in Utawala area of Kenyan capital Nairobi on Wednesday that left...

KABUL: A suicide bomber targeted a bus carrying Afghan military personnel in Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least eight persons including five air force...

COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan authorities postponed the digging of a mass grave containing the bodies of nearly 100 Muslims killed by Tamil Tiger rebels...

ANKARA: The incumbent Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been nominated by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) as its candidate for...

BEIJING: The US Secretary of State John Kerry has admitted that the US-led invasion of Iraq eleven years ago was a serious mistake.In an...

KIEV: Ukraine has launched a full-scale military operation against pro-Russia separatists in the east, hours after a ceasefire ended between the two sides.The government...

BAGHDAD: A total of at least 2,417 people mostly civilians were killed and another 2,287 were injured in acts of terrorism and violence in...

RIYADH: The Saudi King Abdullah has appointed Prince Khalid bin Bandar as head of the Saudi intelligence in a royal decree issued early on...