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Muscat: Indian smartphone users on Friday were taken aback by the fact that a Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) toll free number had been...

Moscow: Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it had made U.S. actor Steven Seagal its special representative for Russian-U.S. humanitarian ties, a...

Caracas: At least one explosion rocked a military event where Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was giving a speech on Saturday and the government said it...

San Francisco: A fast-growing California wildfire that has already forced thousands to flee their homes and shut down a large national park surged overnight...

Harare: Twenty-seven members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) appeared in a Zimbabwe court facing public violence charges on Saturday...

Lisbon: More than 740 firefighters battled a forest fire in southern Portugal on Saturday as temperatures climbed to near record highs in the Iberian...

Kuala Lumpur: Indonesia has agreed to hand over to Malaysia a $250 million luxury yacht it impounded in Bali earlier this year in connection with a...

Toronto: Canada must do a better job of communicating that asylum seekers are not a threat to the country, the parliamentarian charged with dealing with the...

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico: Eleven bodies were discovered on Friday in a Mexican town close to the US border, days before president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez...

Cape Canaveral: NASA on Friday named nine astronauts for the first manned space launches from US soil since the space shuttle programme ended in 2011. The...