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BEIJING: Chinese police have rescued 89 children and arrested 355 suspects after busting a series of child trafficking rings, officials said yesterday. Officers...

MANILA: The House of Representatives has passed on second reading a bill mandating forceful new strategies to suppress the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)...

TEHRAN: Iran has warned China it could cancel a much-delayed $5-billion offshore gas exploration contract in the Gulf, a news agency said on...

DOHA: Qatar Shell (QS) and Venture Gulf Engineering (VGE) have signed an agreement to include Qatar Vinyl Company (QVC) as an approved local...

DAMASCUS: UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Monday he hoped all parties would reach agreement to end the "worrying" situation in Syria,...

KABUL:  A female Afghan police officer on Monday shot dead a foreign civilian adviser in Kabul police headquarters, officials said, in the first...

DOHA: Nominations window for the Board of Directors elections to be held January 23 in the New Year have been opened, Qatar stock...

New Delhi: Mass protests for the third straight day yesterday against the gang-rape of a young woman turned violent here, leaving dozens injured...

New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives here early today for an over 15-hour visit for the annual India-Russia bilateral summit that will...

Imphal: Curfew was re-imposed yesterday in the Manipur capital and around after a journalist was killed in police firing on protestors demanding the...

London: Hundreds of foreign doctors, including those from India and Pakistan, are routinely failing key medical exams in Britain, The Mail on Sunday...

New Delhi: The 23-year-old victim of a brutal gangrape was yesterday put back on the ventilator and her condition remains critical, though she...

  New Delhi: Appealing to people agitated over a gang-rape here to maintain peace, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit yesterday said providing security to...

by Moiz Mannan The vexed issue of admission quotas for non-resident Indians (NRIs) has raised its head once again with a southern state...

President of the Awami National Party Asfandyar Wali Khan (fourth left) places flowers in front of the coffin of Bashir Bilour during the...

WANA/ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s powerful army chief has made reconciling warring factions in Afghanistan a top priority, military officials and Western diplomats say, the newest...

ISLAMABAD: Ameer Ahmed, a 35-year-old resident of Hayat Jat village of district Thatta, is among 79 percent of the population of this area...

  KABUL: A huge fire swept through a market in downtown Kabul yesterday, destroying hundreds of shops and forcing the city’s nearby money exchange...