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CLERMONT-FERRAND, France: A senior adviser to French President Francois Hollande quit yesterday over accusations of past conflict of interest linked to his work...

Students hold messages for missing schoolchildren who are among the unaccounted for passengers trapped in a South Korean capsized ferry at Danwon High...

Students from different classes attend an outdoor joint lesson outside a school building in Guangzhou, Guangdong province of China, yesterday  

KUALA LUMPUR: About 100 Malaysian Muslim activists protested yesterday outside the US embassy against the coming visit by President Barack Obama, denouncing him...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and Australia will sign a deal specifying who handles any wreckage from missing flight MH370 that may be recovered, including...

KATHMANDU: At least 12 Nepalese guides preparing routes up Mount Everest for commercial climbers were killed yesterday by an avalanche in the most...

TOKYO: Japan is sending 100 soldiers and radar to its westernmost outpost, a tropical island off Taiwan, in a deployment that risks angering...

Abuzar Ahmad, the youngest son of slain Afghan AFP reporter Sardar Ahmad, in hospital on April 6. KABUL: The only surviving child of...

An Afghan woman walks in the courtyard of Hazrat-e Ali shrine or Blue Mosque in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif. The mosque,...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani government is planning a fresh round of talks with Taliban negotiators at the weekend, officials said yesterday, despite the militants’...

MAZAR-E-SHARIF: Four Taliban prisoners escaped from a northern Afghanistan jail and killed two guards using weapons that had been smuggled inside, officials said...

Islamabad: When it comes to India and Pakistan, it is a delicate irony: one of the warmest periods in generally frosty relations came...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has enlisted the assistance of keen legal minds as it seeks to answer key questions about the...

Mayawati (second left) receives a model of an elephant, the BSP’s electoral symbol, presented to her by her party’s candidate Yogesh Divedi during...

Activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) dressed as rabbits protest in New Delhi yesterday. The protest ahead of the...

New Delhi:  Pitching for a “Team India”, BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said yesterday his appeal would not be to Hindus and...

Hyderabad: The alliance between the BJP and the TDP in Seemandhra will continue as the two parties yesterday ironed out their differences. After...

Kolkata:  A day after she had a narrow escape from a fire, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday alleged a concerted effort...