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Washington: US President Donald Trump has tapped son-in-law Jared Kushner to lead a new White House office, that aims to apply ideas from...

BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has won state elections in the small western state of Saarland on Sunday by significantly...

MOSCOW: Russian police have detained more than 500 people during unsanctioned protests against corruption across the country, local media reported on Sunday.  The...

ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday slammed again the Swiss government over a mass meeting of the members and sympathizers of the...

KARACHI, Pakistan: Pakistan arrested over 100 Indian fishermen on Sunday for alleged violation of its territorial waters in the Arabian Sea, according to...

NINEVEH, Iraq: At least 16 civilians, including women and children, were killed and 43 others injured in a Islamic State rocket attack in...

ANKARA/TUNCELI, Turkey: A total of 41 PKK terrorists were killed in separate operations in Turkey and northern Iraq, according to official sources on...

YOZGAT, Turkey: The Turkish justice minister on Sunday criticized the Swiss government for allowing the members and sympathizers of the PKK terrorist group...

Washington: United Airlines has run into a social media storm after it barred two teenage girls from boarding a flight in Denver because...

ANTALYA, Turkey: Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has welcomed a U.K. parliamentary committee report on UK-Turkey relations, which said members of the...

Townsville, Australia: Thousands of people including tourists were evacuated Monday as northeast Australia braced for a powerful cyclone packing destructive winds, with warnings...

Hong Kong: Police cracked down on Hong Kong democracy activists Monday saying they would be charged over the Umbrella Movement mass protests, a...

Yangon: Myanmar's army chief defended a military crackdown in Rakhine State on Monday after the UN pledged to probe claims security forces carried...

Brussels: The European Union on Monday urged Russia "to release without delay" what it said in a statement were peaceful demonstrators detained a...

Islamabad: Pakistan has begun building a fence on its disputed 2,500 km (1,500 mile) border with Afghanistan to prevent incursions by militants, Pakistan's...

ABUJA: Nigerian lawmakers summoned the attorney general, accountant general, minister of interior and four companies to appear before a committee of parliamentarians over...

London: Talks to resolve Northern Ireland's political stalemate reached the "end of the road" Sunday, the Sinn Fein party said, but London still...

Tehran: Iran, in response to Washington's imposition of new sanctions against Tehran, has put 15 American companies under sanctions. A statement by Iranian...