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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has said that some western countries had exerted pressures on the government to end the military campaign against the Liberation Tigers...

VIENNA: The fourth round of talks over Tehran’s nuclear energy program between Iran and the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany began in...

BEIJING: The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will attend the 4th summit of...

NEW YORK: The UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi is to step down on May 31 over an international deadlock to end...

ANKARA: An explosion occurred in a coal mine in the western Turkish province of Manisa that left at least 201 miners killed and 80...

25 killed in Turkish coal mine blast while 800 still trapped at 2 kilometres deep inside the mine ANKARA: An explosion occurred in a coal...

NEW DELHI: The Indian Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi is set to become the country’s next prime minister as Exit polls show that the Bharatiya...

RIYADH: The Saudi foreign minister Saud Al-Faisal said on Tuesday that an invitation has been sent to the Iranian foreign minister to visit the...

YANGON: A bus went out of control, crashed into a bridge and fell onto a rail track in Myanmar killing at least 14 persons...

VIENNA: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iranian officials held a meeting in Vienna to review the progress in the implementation of their...