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Male: Parliament in the Maldives on Tuesday approved a 30-day extension of a state of emergency sought by President Abdulla Yameen who cited an ongoing...

London: Britain's Queen Elizabeth made a surprise appearance in the front row at a fashion catwalk on Tuesday where she watched a show by emerging...

Seattle: A $500 monthly cheque from the government for every American earning less than $50,000, financed by taxing the wealthy, would provide financial...

Beirut: Pro-government forces pounded Syria's eastern Ghouta on Tuesday, killing at least 66 people after the enclave's heaviest one-day death toll...

Ankara/Beirut: Pro-Syrian government forces entered Syria's northwestern Afrin region on Tuesday to help a Kurdish militia there fend off a Turkish...

United Nations: During a rare address to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for an international...

Oslo: Sea levels will rise between 0.7 and 1.2 metres (27-47 inches) in the next two centuries even if governments end the fossil fuel era as promised under...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has "lost trust" in local news site Rappler and barred it from covering his official events, his...

Jerusalem: Israeli police revealed on Tuesday they had arrested the controlling shareholder and CEO of the country's biggest telecoms company, as well...

Cairo: An Egyptian court put former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh on a terrorism list on Tuesday, state news agency MENA reported,...