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Kolkata/Guwahati: The first phase of Assembly polls in West Bengal and Assam on Monday passed off peacefully, with a high voter turnout of 81 and 78.06 per...

Washington: The United States has carried out an air strike in Syria that killed a prominent leader of Al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front, Abu Firas Al Suri, US...

Paris/Berlin: Air France said it would allow female cabin crew and pilots to opt out of flying routes to Tehran after some staff said they did not want to...

Rome/Tehran: Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will visit Iran next week, his office said on Monday, three months after the Iranian president came to...

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah on Monday used Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Saudi Arabia and the conferment of its...

Cairo: Egyptian officials have indefinitely postponed a trip to Rome to discuss the investigation into the murder of an Italian student whose body was...

Gaza: Construction workers in Gaza have discovered ancient ruins that archaeologists say may be part of a Byzantine church dating from around 1,500 years...

Dikili (Turkey/Lesbos (Greece): The first migrants deported from Greek islands under a disputed EU-Turkey deal were shipped back to Turkey on Monday in a...

ISLAMABAD: Flash floods triggered by heavy rain in Pakistan have killed at least 55 people and rescuers were trying on Monday to help thousands of survivors...

London/Panama City: Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful on Monday following a leak of...