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Occupied Jerusalem: India and Israel on Wednesday elevated their ties to the "strategic partnership" level with a vow to do "much more...

Rome: Baking summer heat has forced Rome to close some of the drinking fountains known as "big noses", or "nasoni", that constantly gush...

Tokyo: Heavy rain and overflowing rivers in southern Japan have forced the evacuation of almost 400,000 people, public broadcaster NHK said on...

Geneva: The population of Mosul has endured huge suffering in the war to take the northern Iraqi city back from IS and trauma cases among civilians are...

Johannesburg: Seven people died in a high-rise apartment block fire in Johannesburg on Wednesday including a man who jumped to his death to escape the...

Shillong: Opposition's presidential nominee Meira Kumar on Wednesday said the country's secular fabric is in "danger", asserting that...

Vienna: A dispute between Italy and Austria over possible controls on their shared border was a "misunderstanding", Austrian Chancellor Christian...

Tokyo: Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike will push for a law banning smoking in public places, to make the Japanese capital smoke-free ahead of the 2020 Summer...

New York: A gunman fatally shot a female New York City police officer in an unprovoked attack early on Wednesday in the city's Bronx borough, then was...

New Delhi: India is examining the use of private vehicles as shared taxis in an effort to reduce car ownership and curb growing traffic congestion in major...