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Cairo: Edita Food Industries, Egypt's maker of Twinkies, said on Monday its sweet factory in Beni Suef had been shut for three days after authorities...

Valletta/Paris: A small aircraft conducting a surveillance mission over the Mediterranean for France's defence ministry crashed on take-off in Malta on...

Hong Kong: A Hong Kong judge warned jurors that they will have to view video filmed by former British banker Rurik Jutting of the torture and vicious...

Rome: The European Union will go ahead with training for the Libyan coast guard this week, days after a coast guard vessel allegedly attacked a boat...

Cape Town: Splits are widening in South Africa’s ruling African National Congress over President Jacob Zuma’s leadership and a decision by prosecutors...

Oslo/Geneva: Greenhouse gases rose to a symbolic milestone in 2015, taking climate change into a new phase which could last generations even if governments...

Mumbai: In a dramatic development that took the corporates and others by surprise, Cyrus Mistry was on Monday sacked as chairman of Tata Sons and was...

Santa Monica (California): Veteran social activist and politician Tom Hayden, a stalwart of America's New Left who served 18 years in California's...

Manila: The most senior US diplomat for Asia assured the Philippines on Monday that Washington remained its "trusted" ally and that it supported...

Bangkok: Human rights activists on Monday called on Thailand's junta to drop sedition charges against a rights lawyer in the first such case against an...