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BANGKOK: Thailand will hold a new general election on July 20, the country’s election commission announced after meeting with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and...

KABUL: At least 60 militants were killed in a gun battle with the afghan troops who had the support of Western air power in...

BAGHDAD: The Iraqi people are casting their votes on Wednesday in the country’s first parliamentary elections since the 2011 withdrawal of US forces.It is...

NEW DELHI: The polling for the seventh phase of the nine-phase Lok Sabha elections is underway in India on Wednesday as almost 139 million...

TEHRAN: A team of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts will visit two of Iranian nuclear sites within the next week as part...

SEOUL: The South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday apologized for her government’s failure to prevent a ferry disaster that left hundreds of people...

DAMASCUS: The Syrian President Bashar Assad hasdeclared his candidacy for the presidential election scheduled to be held across the country on June 3, the...

CAIRO: An Egyptian court has awarded death sentence to Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 683 other activists over charges relating to an attack...

KABUL: The Afghan election commission on Saturday announced preliminary results of presidential elections held across the country on April 5, according to which no...

SEOUL: The US President Barack Obama said on Saturday that the United States will use its military might if necessary to defend South Korea...