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ISTANBUL/MANBIJ, Syria: Turkish and U.S. forces started joint patrols in the Manbij region of northern Syria on Thursday, Turkey's Defence Minister Hulusi Akar...

NEW DELHI: India's environment minister blamed the Delhi government and its neighbouring states for failing in their efforts to check air pollution which...

MALE, Maldives: The first democratically elected president of the Maldives returned home Thursday after more than two years in exile to escape a...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in Ukraine Thursday to discuss the peace process in the east of the country as well as the...

Mexico City: A Guatemalan woman traveling with a US-bound caravan of Central Americans gave birth in Mexico, a human rights group said. It...

SEOUL, South Korea: South Korea's top court on Thursday ruled that South Korean men can now legally reject their mandatory military service on...

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump says the number of military troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexican border could reach 15,000 - roughly double the number...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka's president has summoned Parliament to meet next week as pressure grows for him to resolve the turmoil set...

LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May has struck a tentative deal with the EU that would give financial services companies in the United...

JAKARTA, Indonesia: Divers on Thursday recovered a flight recorder from the crashed Lion Air jet on the seafloor, a crucial development in the...

WASHINGTON: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced Wednesday he has chosen a successor to outgoing Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura who announced his...

Beirut: A Kurdish-led force backed by the US-led coalition said Wednesday it was suspending operations against the Islamic State group after Turkish shelling...

President Donald Trump maintained his focus on immigration Wednesday, saying Central American migrants in at least two caravans moving north toward the U.S....

Sardar Sarovar Dam, India: India inaugurated the world's tallest statue on Wednesday with fireworks, folk dances and floral tributes, deploying tight security amid...

Yaoundé: An American missionary gunned down in Cameroon's northwest anglophone region was killed during clashes sparked when militants attacked security forces and a...

WASHINGTON: Thousands of U.S. troops to stop an "invasion" of migrants. Tent cities for asylum seekers. An end to the Constitution's guarantee of...

Paris: France has launched a nationwide probe into incidents of babies being born with either missing or malformed arms after abnormal rates of...

Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday she does not expect her global influence to be diminished in the run-up to her planned...