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Seoul: North Korea fired a submarine-launched missile on Wednesday that flew about 500km (311 miles) towards Japan, a show of improving technological...

Beijing: North Korea's firing of a submarine-launched missile on Wednesday could be seen as a "tit-for-tat move" in response to recent...

Istanbul: Turkey expects to swiftly eliminate the threat from IS after launching an operation with U.S.-led coalition forces to sweep militants out of the...

PARIS: When Nicolas Sarkozy went fishing for votes in the electoral waters of France's far right for a second presidential term in 2012 it ended in...

Kolkata: Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday launched Akashvani Maitree, a radio service for Bengali listeners aimed at providing a platform for...

New Delhi: As Home Minister Rajnath Singh will undertake a two-day visit to the Indian-administered-Kashmir on Wednesday, Congress on Tuesday made a strong...

Patna: At least 22 persons have been killed while 2.37 million people affected in the Bihar floods with many areas, specially the riverine belt of 12...

RIGA: US Vice President Joe Biden told Baltic leaders on Tuesday not to take seriously comments by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that called...

Geneva: Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in and around Mosul could be uprooted by the military assault to retake city from IS, the UN refugee agency UNHCR...

HASAKA (Syria)/BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syrian Kurdish forces took near complete control of Hasaka city on Tuesday as a ceasefire ended a week of fighting with the...