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Hanoi/Rancho Mirage: Vietnam's prime minister has urged a greater US role in preventing militarisation and island-building in the South China Sea, the...

Jakarta: Indonesia has drawn up plans for tougher anti-terrorism laws following last month's militant attack on the capital, including detention without...

Athens: Excluding Greece from the open-border Schengen area will not solve the migrant crisis that is testing Europe's cohesion to its limits, EU...

Paris: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, a potential candidate in 2017, was taken for questioning by investigating magistrates on Tuesday about a...

Los Angeles: Sitarist Anoushka Shankar once again lost in the World Music category at the 58th Grammy awards while Indo-British director Asif Kapadia...

Cairo: A senior Egyptian police officer investigating the death of Italian student Giulio Regeni has a prior conviction in connection with the torture and...

Balasore (Odisha): India on Tuesday test-fired its indigenously developed Prithvi-II missile, which is capable of carrying 500kg to 1000kg of warheads, as...

Beijing/Tokyo: China rapped Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Tuesday ahead of her visit to Beijing after she said Australia recognised the...

Geneva: The top United Nations human rights official urged China on Tuesday to release all lawyers detained since July, including 15 arrested last month,...

Baghdad: An Iraqi army helicopter crashed due to a technical malfunction during a routine flight on Tuesday, killing all nine crew members, a military...