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DUBAI: A small fire broke out a Dubai hotel on Monday, forcing guests and staff to leave, in the third such blaze in...

RAMALLAH, West Bank: Jordan’s King Abdallah will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday for the first time...

TOKYO: A weakening Typhoon Noru made landfall in central Japan on Monday, pounding some regions with more than a month’s worth of rain,...

BERLIN:  Britain will have to keep making payments for long-term programmes to the European Union until at least 2020, even after it leaves...

NEW DELHI: Tens of thousands of flood survivors in India’s remote northeast are at risk of contracting diseases such as malaria and Japanese...

MUMBAI: An indigenous man who lived in a tree house for two years after his home was damaged in a south Indian forest,...

Manila: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged North Korea on Sunday to make a "smart decision", after the United Nations imposed tough new...

Nairobi:  At the Machakos bus station in Nairobi, hundreds of people are bumping into each other, tickets held firmly on one hand, the...

Nouakchott:  Counting began on Saturday in Mauritania after a referendum on constitutional changes sought by President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who derided the...

TEHRAN: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said that his administration and country will show a "unified" response to a breach of the 2015 landmark...

New York:  An old construction barge planted with vegetables, apple trees and fragrant herbs is giving apartment-dwelling New Yorkers a chance to pick...

Kigali:  Rwandans yesterday celebrated the third term victory of President Paul Kagame who pledged to continue transforming the nation after winning re-election with...

TORONTO: Nearly 270 people have died in Canadian provincial jails over the past five years. Two-thirds of them were legally innocent. The high...

LONDON:  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who was sworn-in for a second term on Saturday, has accused the United States of trying to undermine...

BERLIN: German police on Saturday arrested two Chinese tourists for making illegal “Heil Hitler” salutes in front of the historic Reichstag building that...

MILAN: Italian police said on Saturday they had arrested a 30-year-old man suspected of abducting a British model in Milan and threatening to...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands: A major supermarket chain said Friday it is removing all eggs from sale in its German stores amid a scare...

KIGALI: Incumbent leader Paul Kagame has swept to a landslide victory in Rwanda’s presidential election, results showed early on Saturday, securing a third...