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New Delhi: India on Thursday began investigating a report that access to its database of the identity details of more than 1 billion citizens was being sold...

Muscat: Indian children up to five years of age have been exempted from giving biometrics to the passport issuing authority. The Indian central government...

Washington DC: U.S. President Donald Trump blasted former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Wednesday as having "lost his mind" in the...

New Delhi: A war of words has erupted between Indian politician Shashi Tharoor and India’s Minister for External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj over making Hindi...

London: Beggars need to be cleared by police from the streets of Windsor before the wedding of Prince Harry to girlfriend Meghan Markle because their...

Tokyo: The security situation facing Japan is the most perilous since World War Two because of North Korea's "unacceptable" provocations,...

London: Former British prime minister Tony Blair told voters on Thursday that time was running out to reverse Brexit, a folly that he said would torpedo...

Abuja: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's supporters got a boost on Wednesday when a key ally of the elderly leader announced he would head a group...

Cairo: An Egyptian court on Wednesday postponed its verdict in a case against rights lawyer and presidential hopeful Khaled Ali, judicial sources said,...

Charleston: A rare winter storm hit the US Southeast on Wednesday, bringing Florida's capital its first snow in three decades and snarling travel, while...