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Toronto: Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, whose tumultuous four years as leader of Canada's largest city included an admission he smoked crack cocaine and...

Havana: US President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned appeal for political liberties in Cuba, including freedom of expression and religion, as he spoke...

Washington: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump renewed a call for tougher US border security following Tuesday's deadly attacks in...

Paris: France's top appeals court dealt a blow to Nicolas Sarkozy's hopes of a presidential comeback on Tuesday when it ruled that wiretaps of his...

Geneva/Lesbos: The United Nations refugee agency dealt a blow to EU efforts to stem the biggest humanitarian crisis in generations on Tuesday, saying it...

Donetsk (Russia): A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to 22 years in jail after finding her guilty of involvement in the...

Johannesburg: South Africa's anti-corruption watchdog may seek state funding to speed up its investigation into a growing scandal over President Jacob...

Chandigarh: Haryana government on Tuesday ordered a judicial inquiry to probe the conspiracy behind the incidents which pushed the state into unprecedented...

Dar Es Salaam: Tanzanian authorities have launched a national audit to find "ghost workers" and remove them from civil service payrolls under a...

Lahore: Pakistan's first women-only rickshaw service was meant to provide its staff with a new way of gaining financial independence and its passengers...