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CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Wednesday convicted the country’s ousted President Hosni Mubarak of embezzlement and sentenced him to three years in prison.His two...

SHANGHAI: The fourth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) began in Shanghai, during which the Chinese president...

BANGKOK: In a bid to end the political turmoil in Thailand, the country’s interim Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan has called for fresh election to...

MOSCOW: At least five persons lost their lives and 45 others sustained injuries in a collision between a cargo train and a passenger train...

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday that at least 10,000 people have been forced to leave their...

MOSCOW: The third Moscow International Security Conference will be held on May 23-24, aimed at discussing international security problems, ways of settling regional crises...

NEW DELHI: The Indian Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi was elected as leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentary party on Tuesday, paving the...

SRINAGAR: A passenger bus fell into a deep ravine at Digdol on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Ramban district of the Indian-held Kashmir on Tuesday...

DAMASCUS: At least 1,62,000 people including at least 54,000 civilians have been killed in the ongoing three-year-old conflict in Syria, the British-based Syrian Observatory...

By Agha Iqrar HaroonISLAMABAD: Russia-China gas deal is a nightmare for Ukraine and European Union because now Russia does not need European market to...