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Berlin: Pressure grew on Germany's domestic spy chief on Saturday after he expressed scepticism that migrants had been hounded in Chemnitz after the...

Tokyo: A powerful typhoon killed 10 people in western Japan and an airport company started to transfer some 3,000 stranded passengers by boats from a...

* Syria government preparing assault on rebel-held Idlib

Muscat: A second and third earthquake, measuring 5.0 and 4.1 on the Richter scale respectively, hit Iran on Thursday afternoon. The first was 220...

Muscat: An earthquake struck southern Iran on Thursday, around 330 kilometres from northern Oman. In an online statement, the Earthquake Monitoring Centre...

By Rina Chandran

Occupied Jerusalem/Beirut: Israel said it shot down a Syrian warplane that crossed into the occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday, but Damascus said the jet was...

Madrid: Spain's conservatives took a swing to the right on Saturday, less than two months after being ousted from office, as they elected a...

* No-confidence debate seen as warm-up for 2019 election