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Guests and deputies attending the oath-taking ceremony of new Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the parliament hall in Kiev, Ukraine, yesterday.  KIEV: Western-backed...

WASHINGTON: The United States pledged millions of dollars in additional aid to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia yesterday, deepening American support to the Western-leaning...

Georgia’s President Georgy Margvelashvili speaks with servicemen from the Batumi separate infantry battalion of Georgian Armed Forces during a farewell ceremony at the...

Colombian President and re-election candidate Juan Manuel Santos (centre) piggy rides a motorbike during his electoral campaign tour through several cities of the...

London: Portuguese police sources have confirmed to the Observer that a number of suspects identified by Scotland Yard detectives will be arrested “in...

SOUTH KIVU: Up to 37 people including women and children were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern province of South Kivu yesterday...

ABUJA: A Nigerian newspaper said that it was prevented from distributing thousands of copies of its Saturday edition by soldiers, just days after...

WASHINGTON: A new TV channel soon to launch with US financial backing in northern Nigeria aims to counter the growing influence of radical...

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma was yesterday admitted to a Pretoria hospital for tests following a bout of exhaustion, his office said....

WASHINGTON: US author and rights activist Maya Angelou was hailed as a teacher, trailblazer and spiritual mother in eulogies yesterday by First Lady...

New York: Distancing herself from some of the Obama administration’s handling of the Arab uprisings, Hillary Rodham Clinton says in her upcoming book...

(From left) Philippine Senators Ramon Revilla Jr, Jose Estrada and Juan Ponce Enrile MANILA: The Philippines yesterday said it was preparing to arrest...

Malaysian indigenous member of the Mah Meri tribe, Daman, poses for photographs with a Bajus mask as he prepares to perform during Aborigine...

MANILA: Gunmen shot dead a town mayor and two other people in a daylight roadside ambush in the Philippines yesterday. Mayor Ernesto Balolong...

BANGKOK:  Ravers will be able to dance until dawn at Thailand’s notorious full moon party on Phangan island as usual after the junta...

MANILA: Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago has filed a measure calling for the creation of a flood recovery fund as the rainy season nears. Santiago...

Beijing: Two pairs of 3,300-year-old trousers found in China’s far western Xinjiang region may be the world’s oldest. Archeologists in May found animal-fur...

SHANGHAI:  The Chinese government said yesterday it will deploy eight inspection teams across the country to investigate how regional governments are implementing 19...