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Vladivostok (Russia)/Moscow: Russia's ruling United Russia Party suffered a rare setback in regional elections despite winning most of the seats, a...

Stockholm: Sweden faces a political impasse after its mainstream centre-left and centre-right blocs virtually tied in an election on Sunday, while the...

Phnom Penh: Hundreds of supporters of the leader of Cambodia's main opposition party Kem Sokha gathered outside his house on Monday after he was...

Geneva: UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called on China on Monday to allow in monitors after "deeply disturbing" allegations of large...

New York: A breakthrough in DNA analysis is helping identify more victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York, but the scientific advance is of...

Bangkok: UN climate talks in Bangkok made little headway on the thorny issue of how funding for poor nations to tackle global warming will be stepped up, an...

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party faces a "catastrophic split" if she persists with her proposals on Brexit,...

Mogadishu: A suicide car bomb rammed into a local government office in Somalia's capital on Monday, killing at least six people in an attack claimed by...

Kabul: Afghan media are facing growing pressure to cut back coverage of militant attacks following the death of two television reporters who were among 20...

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, eyeing an historic extended term, reaffirmed on Monday his resolve to revise the nation's post-war, pacifist...