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Muscat: Turkey will release almost a fifth of its convicts to ease congestion in prisons that have been packed with thousands of people arrested in...

Los Angeles: Authorities in southern California ordered the evacuation of 82,000 people on Tuesday, after a wildfire broke out in a mountain pass to rapidly...

Beijing/London: Prime Minister Theresa May has told China's leader that Britain wants to strengthen trade and business ties, an attempt to reassure the...

Patna: Bihar on Tuesday became the first non-National Democratic Alliance state to ratify the Constitution Amendment Bill on Goods and Services Tax (GST)...

New Delhi: Charti Lal Goel, the first speaker of the Delhi Assembly and father of Union Minister Vijay Goel, passed away on Tuesday after prolonged...

London: Anjem Choudary, Britain's most high-profile preacher whose followers have been linked to numerous plots across the world, has been found guilty...

Dhaka: Bangladeshi security forces said on Tuesday they had arrested four women suspected of being members of a home-grown militant group blamed for an...

SIRTE (Libya): Libyan forces backed by US air strikes said on Tuesday that they had taken control of one of the last districts in central Sirte occupied by...

Istanbul: Turkish police searched the offices of a nationwide retail chain and a healthcare and technology company on Tuesday, arresting dozens of people in...

YANGON: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is heading to China on Wednesday for what is likely to be her government's biggest diplomatic test, with the...