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KUWAIT CITY: Human Rights Watch called on Saturday for Kuwait to revoke a ban on demonstrations and respect the people's right to peaceful...

TOKYO: Japan pledged Saturday to launch projects worth $700 million in Central Asia to help the resource-rich region promote trade, energy-saving and regional...

BANGKOK: Thailand and South Korea agreed to more than double their annual trade to $30 billion over the next five years, the kingdom's...

BEIRUT: Twin car bombs at a military officers' club in southern Syria killed at least 20 soldiers on Saturday, a watchdog said.   The...

BAGHDAD: Iraq has cancelled a $4.2 billion (3.3 billion euro) package of arms deals with Russia over corruption concerns, a spokesman for Prime...

MANILA, Philippines:  The Philippines yesterday successfully sold P30.8 billion or $750 million in 10-year global peso notes (GPN) at a coupon of 3.90...

DIYARBAKIR: Seventeen Turkish soldiers were killed on Saturday when their helicopter crashed in southeastern Turkey due to bad weather conditions, the area's governor...

MANILA: Canada and the Philippines signed a deal Saturday to help Manila buy military equipment to defend its territory, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen...

ISLAMABAD: The families of more than 3 million poor children in Pakistan will receive cash stipends if their children go to school, the...

TOKYO: Japan's Toyota group said Saturday it will invest about 13 trillion rupiah ($1.3 billion) over the next five years in expanding its...

WASHINGTON: The United States plans a $6.7 billion sale of 20 heavy cargo aircraft and five refuelling planes to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon...

WASHINGTON: Marillyn Hewson likes to joke that she's done nearly every job at Lockheed Martin Corp  during her 29 years with the biggest...

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan troops found 11 bodies of convicts Saturday raising the death toll in an overnight prison riot in the capital to...

Congress party President Sonia Gandhi (left) and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attend ‘Samvad Baithak’ or Dialogue Meeting with top leaders of the party...

New Delhi: Activist-politician Arvind Kejriwal yesterday accused industrialists Mukesh and Anil Ambani, Jet Airways chief Naresh Goyal, Congress MP Annu Tandon and several...

  New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday pulled up the union government for not implementing its order directing auctioning of 122 cancelled 2G licences...

New Delhi: India is attempting to liberalise visa procedures by adding nine countries to the 11 whose citizens are entitled to the document...

Bangalore: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper signed off his six-day visit to India on a sportive note yesterday by playing cricket and hockey...