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Baghdad/Geneva: US forces backing an Iraqi army campaign against IS in Mosul carried out an air strike on a bridge spanning the Tigris river, restricting...

Cairo: Egypt's Court of Cassation overturned on Tuesday a life sentence against deposed president Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered a...

Jakarta: Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Tuesday he was determined to "prevent the growth of radicalism", apparently responding to...

Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, whose leadership has been questioned after political setbacks, on Tuesday won a much-needed victory in...

New Delhi: BJP and Trinamool Congress shared the honours by winning two Lok Sabha seats each, claiming it was a vindication of their stand on...

New Delhi: Professor MGK Menon, an acclaimed physicist, who had played a prominent role in the development of science and technology in the country over the...

Tokyo: A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan early on Tuesday, briefly disrupting cooling functions at a nuclear plant and generating a small tsunami...

Chennai: Veteran Carnatic music exponent M Balamurali Krishna, who enthralled music lovers for more than four decades, passed away here on Tuesday. The...

Beijing: China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday declined to say if it supported an executive order by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declaring part...

New Delhi: As many as 82,500 ATMs, which account for about 40 per cent of cash vending machines in India, have been recalibrated to dispense new high...