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Kabul: Afghan security forces sealed off the centre of Kabul on Tuesday as they battled gunmen who barricaded themselves inside the offices of an...

Seoul: The United Nations Security Council will discuss the latest missile launches by North Korea in a closed-door meeting on Tuesday morning at the...

HANGZHOU (China): British Prime Minister Theresa May rejected a "points-based" system to screen immigrants, setting up a potential conflict with...

PARIS: France's state prosecutor said on Monday that presidential hopeful Nicholas Sarkozy should stand trial over funding irregularities in his failed...

Occupied Jerusalem: A parking garage under construction collapsed in Tel Aviv on Monday, killing at least two people and trapping several others under the...

Beirut/Hangzhou (China): The United States and Russia will work in the next few days on a deal to curb fighting in Syria and build cooperation in the fight...

Wau (South Sudan): Dressed in a ripped T-shirt and shorts, 10-year-old Martin Andrea raises a toy AK-47 assault rifle made of long grass reeds to his...

FRANKFURT: High-resolution cameras on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft have found space probe Philae, which landed on a comet nearly...

HANGZHOU (China)/DAVAO CITY (Philippines): US President Barack Obama said on Monday he was considering whether or not to meet his Filipino counterpart,...

KABUL: A Taliban suicide attack near the defence ministry in Kabul killed at least 24 people on Monday, including a number of senior security officials, and...