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Bengaluru: Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Monday said a free media was not only beneficial, but necessary in a free society and any attack on the freedom of...

Hong Kong: Typhoon Merbok edged towards Hong Kong and the China's south coast on Monday, bringing strong winds and rough seas, with the Hong Kong...

Cairo: An often fiery government critic, Egyptian journalist Khaled Al Balshi has been arrested, had his operations monitored, and staff harassed by police...

Moscow: Baton-wielding riot police broke up anti-corruption protests and detained hundreds of demonstrators in Moscow and other Russian cities on Monday...

London: Theresa May told Conservative lawmakers on Monday she would serve as prime minister as long as they wanted her after a botched election gamble cost...

Tokyo: Former Okinawa governor Masahide Ota, who as a student fought for Japan in the bloody Battle of Okinawa in World War II and then campaigned to rid...

Tokyo: A female panda gave birth at a Tokyo zoo on Monday, zoo officials said, five years after her first cub was found dead just days after it was...

Karachi: Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be questioned on Thursday by investigators probing how his family obtained its vast wealth, the...

Ankara: Police in Iran killed four IS suspects, two of them foreigners, in the southern province of Hormuzgan and seized explosives, guns and the...

Oslo: Norway aims to ban face-covering veils in kindergartens, schools and universities, the government said on Monday, the latest European nation to...