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 Bengaluru, Sep 5 (IANS) Senior Kannada journalist and social activist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead on Tuesday night by unidentified men at her...

Berlin:  A German intelligence agent on Tuesday said he pretended to be a jihadist planning an attack in online chatrooms because he was...

SHAMLAPUR, Bangladesh/DHAKA: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi came under more pressure on Tuesday from countries with Muslim populations to halt violence against...

MOSCOW: Over one million people gathered in Chechnya, Russia on Monday to protest the Myanmar government violent persecution of the Rohingya Muslims, according...

KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghanistan on Monday joined the international community in denouncing the mass killings of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.  In a statement, the...

NAIROBI: Kenyan authorities have ruled that a weekend fire at a dormitory in the capital Nairobi that left nine girls dead was the...

Taipei: Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen named a staunchly pro-independence city mayor as her new premier Tuesday in a move which some analysts said...

Xiamen, China: Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened Tuesday to expel up to 155 more US diplomatic personnel from his country as the diplomatic...

YANGON: The Myanmar military has lost contact with a training jet and has kicked off a search for the missing plane, the military...

Geneva: Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused Beijing of sabotaging United Nations efforts to promote rights and slammed the world body for often...

Xiamen, China: Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Tuesday of a global "catastrophe" unless a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear impasse can...

Damascus: For the first time in Syria's conflict, sport has come to the defence of the deeply-fractured country's unity, with regime backers and...

Camp Morehead, Afghanistan: Commandos armed with RPG-7 rocket launchers aim at a tank hundreds of metres away, fresh recruits to Afghanistan's most skilled...

TOKYO: A Japan Airlines (JAL) plane made an emergency landing at Tokyo's Haneda International Airport shortly after takeoff on Tuesday following an apparent...

Manila: Accused murderer Manuel Cerna has languished in a Philippine jail for 15 years without a verdict, one of countless inmates enduring interminable...

Quetta, Pakistan: Eight people including four security personnel have been killed in three separate clashes with militants in southwest Pakistan and Karachi, officials...

STORM/IRMA: Hurricane Irma, a powerful Category 4 storm, plowed toward the Caribbean and the southern United States on Tuesday as islands in its...

ANKARA: Turkey’s foreign minister on Monday criticized German politicians sparring in a weekend debate for focusing on Turkey rather than Germany’s own pressing...