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Amritsar: Amid heightened tensions, Pakistani Prime Minister's Foreign Affairs Advisor Sartaj Aziz arrived here on Saturday night to attend the Heart of...

Baghdad: No food or fuel has reached Mosul in nearly a week and the onset of rain and cold weather threatens a tough winter for more than a million people...

Beirut/Rome/Moscow: Russia said on Saturday it was ready for talks with the United States about a withdrawal of all Syrian rebels from eastern Aleppo where...

Banjul: Gambians reacted with joy and stunned disbelief on Saturday to the defeat of President Yahya Jammeh, one day after he conceded that he lost an...

Cairo: Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court upheld on Saturday a law that effectively bans protests, settling a years-long court battle and protecting...

Dubai: A US Senate vote to extend the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) for 10 years shows the world that Washington cannot be relied upon to act on its commitments,...

Dubai: Iran's supreme court has upheld the death penalty against Iranian businessman Babak Zanjani for corruption, the judiciary said on Saturday, a...

Bucharest: Romania's leftist Social Democrats (PSD) are likely to win a December 11 parliamentary election, an opinion poll showed on Saturday,...

Libreville: Gabon has postponed legislative elections set for December 27 until next July because of a lack of money, the interior ministry said in a...

Chapeco (Brazil): Brazil's president on Saturday bestowed honours on the victims of an air crash as Air Force troops unloaded 50 coffins flown in...