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New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a payments bank on Saturday to turn postmen into bankers so they can offer financial services to the...

Brasilia: Brazil's top electoral court on Friday barred jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from running in this year's presidential...

Moscow: A Russian passenger plane ran off an airport runway outside Russia's southern city of Sochi early on Saturday and caught fire injuring 18...

Beirut: A blast killed at least one person in a region of north Syria controlled by Turkey-backed Syrian rebel groups, a witness and a war monitor said on...

Ankara: Turkey raised natural gas prices on Saturday by as much as 14 per cent, two sources said, while the energy regulator announced a similar increase in...

Occupied Jerusalem: Palestinian refugees reacted with dismay on Saturday to a United States decision to halt funding to a UN agency, warning that it would...

Frankfurt: An explosion and fire erupted Germany's Vohburg refinery in Bavaria state early on Saturday morning and firefighters started to get the...

Texas: A white former Texas policeman was jailed on Wednesday for 15 years over the deadly shooting of an unarmed black teenager in a Dallas suburb last...

Myanmar: As many as 85 villages were flooded in Myanmar after a dam failed, unleashing waters that blocked a major highway and forced more than 63,000...

Wahington: Days after cancelling a planned visit to North Korea by his top diplomat citing insufficient progress in denuclearisation talks, U.S. President...