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Rawalpindi: General Qamar Javed Bajwa, an expert in Pakistan-administered-Kashmir affairs, on Tuesday took over as Pakistan's new army chief succeeding...

New York: US President-elect Donald Trump named a vociferous critic of Obamacare and a policy consultant on Tuesday to help him overhaul the healthcare...

Johannesburg: South Africa's ruling African National Congress said on Tuesday its executive committee had stood by President Jacob Zuma in a debate...

Ankara: Turkey's ruling AK Party is finalising plans to formally cement President Tayyip Erdogan's powers by creation of an executive presidency and...

Beirut: The US military presence in the Gulf poses the main risk of conflict in the region, an Iranian military official said on Tuesday after Washington...

Moscow: Russia's former economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev privately argued to colleagues in government that the state should give up control over oil...

Khartoum: Sudanese authorities seized the print-runs of four daily newspapers on Tuesday, staff said, a move one editor called a crackdown on coverage of...

Nairobi: A senior aide to Burundi's president Pierre Nkurunziza was injured in an attack on Monday night that also killed one of his bodyguards,...

Verbania: Emma Morano, thought to be the world's oldest person and the last to be born in the 1800s, celebrated her 117th birthday on Tuesday, still...

Tokyo/Seoul: Japan has started culling more than 300,000 chickens and ducks after the discovery of a highly contagious form of bird flu on farms in the...