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SYDNEY: Australia plans to increase the maximum jail term to 15 years for anyone convicted of contaminating foodstuffs, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said...

Tianjin, China: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang railed against "unilateralism" on Wednesday in a veiled allusion to the trade fight with the United States,...

Tehran:  Iran on Sunday hailed the selections made by Iraq's parliament a day after the body elected candidates backed by a pro-Tehran bloc...

MOSCOW & JERUSALEM:  President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the shooting down of a Russian military plane near Syria's seacoast was the...

Washington:  President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is seriously considering a request from Poland for US troops to be permanently based in the...

Washington:  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed sorrow Tuesday for the downing by Syria of a Russian warplane with 15 people on...

Seoul:  South Korea's president and the North's leader Kim Jong Un drove together through the streets of Pyongyang Tuesday past thousands of cheering...

Itogon, Philippines:  Hundreds of Philippine rescuers used shovels and their bare hands Tuesday to sift through a massive landslide, with dozens feared dead...

Brussels:  European leaders may need to hold an extra summit in November to clinch a Brexit deal and avert "a catastrophe" when Britain...

BERLIN:  Germany's government said on Tuesday it would replace the head of its domestic intelligence agency who has faced accusations of harbouring far-right...

RALEIGH, N.C.: Flooded rivers from Florence's drenching rains have swamped coal ash dumps and low-lying hog farms, raising pollution concerns as the swollen...

A Pakistani Shiite Muslim man chooses knives mounted on chains used in ritual self flagellation during the Ashura mourning rituals at a shop...

Geneva: Myanmar's army has used unfathomable levels of violence against minority Rohingya, UN investigators said Tuesday, calling for the military to be removed...

Kurnool:  Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a 'chowkidar' who opens the door and lets thieves...

New Delhi:  Rebutting Congress' charges against the Narendra Modi government over the Rafale deal, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday held the erstwhile...

President Vladimir Putin sought to lower tensions after a Russian reconnaissance plane was downed mistakenly by Syrian forces fighting off an attack by...

HATAY, Turkey: Turkish military reinforcements on Tuesday reached a key area near Turkey’s southern border with Syria. The military convoy came into Reyhanli...

Caracas: Impoverished Venezuelans have reacted with fury after videos of President Nicolas Maduro gorging on succulent pieces of meat in a restaurant owned...