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San Francisco: A fast-growing California wildfire that has already forced thousands to flee their homes and shut down a large national park surged overnight...

Harare: Twenty-seven members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) appeared in a Zimbabwe court facing public violence charges on Saturday...

Lisbon: More than 740 firefighters battled a forest fire in southern Portugal on Saturday as temperatures climbed to near record highs in the Iberian...

Kuala Lumpur: Indonesia has agreed to hand over to Malaysia a $250 million luxury yacht it impounded in Bali earlier this year in connection with a...

Toronto: Canada must do a better job of communicating that asylum seekers are not a threat to the country, the parliamentarian charged with dealing with the...

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico: Eleven bodies were discovered on Friday in a Mexican town close to the US border, days before president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez...

Cape Canaveral: NASA on Friday named nine astronauts for the first manned space launches from US soil since the space shuttle programme ended in 2011. The...

Singapore: A senior Chinese diplomat on Saturday said China hopes Australia will not voice "groundless suspicions" so that ties between them can...

Washington: The Trump administration has rescinded an Obama-era ban on the use of pesticides linked to declining bee populations and the cultivation of...

Mazar-i-Shari, Afghanistan: IS militants who surrendered to Afghan forces this week in the northern province of Jawzjan may be granted amnesty despite...