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BEIJING: China's biggest energy firm PetroChina will join Exxon Mobil in developing Iraq's giant West Qurna oilfield and is in talks with Lukoil...

BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories in a bid to lend backing to revived peace...

TOKYO: Japan's eye-watering national debt has topped one quadrillion yen, official data showed Friday, a record figure that underlines Tokyo's struggle to curb...

TOKYO: Nikon shares plunged 14.29 percent Friday after the Japanese giant warned that compact camera sales were falling through the floor as consumers...

LONDON: Britain's biggest retailer, supermarket chain Tesco, said on Friday that it is in exclusive talks over combining its Chinese operations with those...

TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Friday that the political crisis in Egypt after the army ousted Islamist president Mohamed...

BEIRUT: Gunmen kidnapped two pilots working for Turkish Airlines early on Friday on Beirut's airport road, Lebanon's Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told AFP....

MOGADISHU: An Ethiopian military cargo plane crash landed and burst into flames Friday at Mogadishu airport, killing four of its six crew members,...

MEXICO CITY: Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's America Movil has made a 7.2 billion euro or $9.6 billion bid for the shares in Dutch...

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks ended flat on Friday after zig-zagging in and out of positive territory, with market heavyweight Nikon diving on a big...

BEIJING: China said it will enhance monitoring of milk powder producers following a contamination scare at New Zealand's Fonterra and "severely" punish any...

MANILA: A diesel oil spill spread a large reddish stain over Manila Bay in the Philippines' capital on Friday, posing potential health and...

QUETTA: Gunmen killed four people and wounded 15 after opening fire outside a Sunni Muslim mosque on the outskirts of Pakistan's southwestern city...

DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has sent a cable of congratulations to the President of the Republic of...

LAHORE: The United States on Thursday evacuated all non-emergency staff from its consulate in the Pakistani city of Lahore, citing "specific threats" amid...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia arrested two suspected members of Al-Qaeda who may have been plotting against Western embassies in the Middle East, the interior...

TOKYO: Nagasaki on Friday marked the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing by the United States during World War II that turned the...

SYDNEY: A British man has died in Australia after falling from an airport escalator, police said Friday. The death, on Thursday evening, occurred...