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A general view of the destruction after explosions in the port area of Tianjin, northern China, yesterday. TIANJIN, China: Huge, fiery blasts at...

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has broken up a new three-member “terror” cell and seized large quantities of weapons, ammunition and explosives, the interior ministry...

ANKARA: Turkey faces a snap election this autumn after talks on forming a coalition government broke down yesterday, increasing uncertainty in the Nato...

Ayman Al Zawahiri Dubai: Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri yesterday pledged his group’s allegiance to new Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour who...

Addis Ababa: South Sudan’s rival forces have made little if any progress at talks on ending the civil war, the government has warned,...

Ankara: US warplanes have carried out their first air strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria after taking off from a Turkish...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras delivers his speech as he attends a news conference after a meeting at the Greek Ministry of Infrastructure,...

    Syrian President Bashar Al Assad with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Damascus. They discussed about finding a solution to Syria’s four-year...

Iraqi men look at the damage following a bomb explosion that targeted a vegetable market in Baghdad’s northern Shia district of Sadr City...

People gather behind police tape blocking off the site in Mali’s capital Bamako where a policeman and a civilian were wounded when gunmen...

  Islamabad: Pakistan’s army yesterday announced death penalty for six militants linked to an assault on a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar...

  ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China have signed 20 memoranda of understanding (MoU) worth $2bn as the two-day historic meet of the China Pakistan Economic...

A Delhi policeman stands guard at a barricade on a road ahead of Independence Day celebrations, yesterday.   New Delhi: The national capital has...

Leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies take out a “Save Democracy” march, denouncing what they called a Congress-induced parliament logjam, yesterday  ...

An elderly Kashmiri person, injured in the blast, is carried on a stretcher for medical treatment at a local hospital in Srinagar, yesterday.  ...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (left) with the leader of main opposition CHP, Kemal Kilicdaroglu (second right), during their meeting for a coalition...

  Washington: US Secretary of State John Kerry called his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Thursday to express concern about a visit to Moscow...

Labour Party leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a rally in the Arts Centre Theatre in Aberdeen, Scotland, yesterday. Corbyn, who wants to...