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  Ahmedabad, India---A diamond trader from Narendra Modi's home state on Friday won the bidding for the personalised pinstriped suit the Indian prime minister...

    Bujumbura, Burundi---Burundi's Interior Minister warned Friday against mass demonstrations, a day after a huge rally he claimed was organised by the opposition wanting...

Moscow - A Russian court has jailed top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for two weeks in a move that prevents the charismatic leader...

Geneva - Two trains slammed into each other north of Zurich early on Friday, leaving passengers injured, Swiss police told AFP. "There was...

New Delhi - Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has resigned as chancellor of an Indian university, accusing the government of political interference in...

Jakarta - The execution of two Australian drug smugglers on death row in Indonesia has been delayed by up to one month, the...

    Peshawar, Pakistan---A government agency in Peshawar has hired a man who claims to have killed 100,000 rats in a bid to rid the...

    Paris---French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for the "Minsk II" ceasefire deal in Ukraine to be "fully respected" after...

    Paris---The foreign ministers of Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine will meet in Paris on Tuesday to discuss the conflict in eastern Ukraine, French...

      Kuala Lumpur---Grieving Chinese relatives of MH370 passengers blasted Malaysia Airlines Friday, detailing a long list of complaints and traumas they said were suffered...

Paris---French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for the "Minsk II" ceasefire deal in Ukraine to be "fully respected" after...

    Kano, Nigeria---At least 30 people were killed in Boko Haram raids on two villages in northeast Nigerian Borno state near the town of...

New Delhi - Indian police have arrested six people including a senior journalist on charges of stealing top-secret documents from India's petroleum ministry...

Tokyo - A member of Japan's ultra-leftist Red Army guerrilla group who was released from prison in exchange for hostages held in a...

    Jerusalem---Snow blanketed much of Israel, Jordan and Lebanon early on Friday, with many residents urged to stay in their homes because of blocked...

    Mogadishu---Somalia's Shebab insurgents said they carried out an attack Friday on a hotel in the capital Mogadishu with government ministers reportedly inside, killing...

    Benghazi---At least 25 people were killed and 30 wounded Friday in a triple bombing in an eastern Libyan town near the jihadist stronghold...

Jakarta---Indonesia has delayed the execution of two Australian drug smugglers by up to a month, backtracking on an earlier pledge to put the...