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  NEW DELHI:  At least 44 people were killled in a town in central India on Saturday when a cooking gas cylinder blew up...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a public rally in Chandigarh, yesterday. Chandigarh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said that he was taking...

Home Minister Rajnath Singh (centre) meets the delegation led by the Director General, Pakistani Rangers, Maj  Gen Umar Farooq Burki (right) during a...

Mumbai police escort one of the accused in the 2006 train bombings at Arthur Road Jail yesterday. Mumbai: Twelve people were convicted and...

Japan Self-Defence Force members carry a senior citizen on a boat after rescuing a group of elderly patients from an isolated hospital flooded...

Caracas: Activists planned new protests in Venezuela yesterday after jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez (pictured) was sentenced to over 13 years in prison...

A migrant carrying a child falls after tripping on a Hungarian TV camerawoman while trying to escape from a collection point in Roszke...

Syrian refugees receive aid from volunteers and activists of the Greek NGO Praksis before crossing Greece’s border with Macedonia near the village of...

Shaima from Syria reacts as a doctor checks blood pressure during a medical examination after her arrival at a refugee registration centre in...

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (left) greets Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al Mubarak Al Ahmad Al Sabah in Rome yesterday. ROME: Kuwait...

Ramallah: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday praised the countries which sided with “justice” by voting for the Palestinians to be allowed to raise...

Kirkuk, Iraq: Bombs killed 13 members of the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces during an operation against the Islamic State group in the northern...

Riyadh: A massive construction crane crashed into Makkah’s Grand Mosque in stormy weather yesterday, killing at least 107 people and injuring 238, Saudi...

Sana’a: Yemen’s government said yesterday that it will join UN-mediated peace talks next week, as rocket fire from Iran-backed rebels reportedly killed 20...

RIYADH:  At least 65 people were killed when a crane crashed in Mecca’s Grand Mosque on Friday, Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defence authority said,...

      CAIRO: The Arab League hailed the success of the Palestinian and Arab diplomacy in issuing a decision from the U.N. General Assembly to...

    US President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama stand on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, September 11, 2015,...

    Some of the 275 women and children rescued from Boko Haram, Yola, in northeast Nigeria, on May 25, 2015 (AFP)   YOLA: At least...