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Moscow: Russia's former economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev privately argued to colleagues in government that the state should give up control over oil...

Khartoum: Sudanese authorities seized the print-runs of four daily newspapers on Tuesday, staff said, a move one editor called a crackdown on coverage of...

Nairobi: A senior aide to Burundi's president Pierre Nkurunziza was injured in an attack on Monday night that also killed one of his bodyguards,...

Verbania: Emma Morano, thought to be the world's oldest person and the last to be born in the 1800s, celebrated her 117th birthday on Tuesday, still...

Tokyo/Seoul: Japan has started culling more than 300,000 chickens and ducks after the discovery of a highly contagious form of bird flu on farms in the...

Jammu: Two major terror attacks rocked Jammu region on Tuesday in which 7 army personnel, including a Major, were killed and eight other securitymen,...

New Delhi: Amid a din, a bill which seeks to tax money deposited in banks post demonetisation was passed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday within minutes without...

Sydney: Warm seas around Australia's Great Barrier Reef have killed two-thirds of a 700-km (435 miles) stretch of coral in the past nine months, the...

Manila: Philippine lender RCBC is not liable to compensate Bangladesh for tens of millions of stolen dollars that went missing in Manila, RCBC's lawyer...

New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi was on Tuesday admitted to a hospital here following a viral infection. "The Congress President has been...