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German Chancellor Angela Merkel reviews an honor guard before a meeting with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil,...

Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond leaves a Royal Air Force aeroplane after arriving at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran August 23, 2015. BY...

Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (L) and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speak during a news conference at the Ministry of Foreign...

A Yemeni supporter of the Shiite Houthi movement holds models of rockets during a rally in the capital Sanaa on June 14, 2015,...

Nepalese pedestrians walks past closed shops during a strike called by the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) demanding secularism in the new...

Dubai: Stock prices in Gulf states nosedived yesterday in a massive market sell-off sparked by descending oil prices, with the Saudi and Dubai...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said militants firing from Afghan territory killed four of its soldiers along the border yesterday, as tensions continue to rise between...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a news conference after a meeting with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, August...

Athens: An unprecedented war of words has broken out between Greece’s outgoing government, the parliament chief and the president over early elections likely...

Rome: A deepening immigration crisis is threatening to rip the “soul” out of the European Union, Italy’s foreign minister warned yesterday. In a...

Lebanese protesters wave the national flag in front of a barbed wire fence during a demonstration organised by “You Stink” campaign to protest...

People ride past a digital billboard showing a sketch of the main suspect during last Monday’s attack on Erawan shrine, in Bangkok, yesterday.  ...

Beijing: An explosion at a chemical plant in east China late Saturday killed one person and injured nine people with 150 firefighters battling...

Abu Dhabi: Forces from the United Arab Emirates have rescued a British hostage held for more than a year by Al Qaeda in...

  Jerusalem: A Palestinian prisoner’s hunger strike has sparked new calls for Israel to curb its use of a form of detention without trial,...

People greet Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as he enters to speak at a rally at Ladd-Peebles stadium in Mobile, Alabama.   COLUMBUS, Ohio:...

The Umm Qasr port near Basra, southeast of Baghdad.    BASRA: Road access to Iraq’s southern Umm Qasr commodities port was restored yesterday following...

Congress party workers stage a protest against soaring price of onions, in Bhopal, yesterday. Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government yesterday asked district collectors to...