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South Korean President Park Geun-hye meets soldiers after a US-South Korea military exercise in Pocheon, South Korea, yesterday.   SEOUL: Beset by crisis, scandal...

US National Security Adviser Susan Rice with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing,...

Paramilitary personnel patrol Ahmedabad roads, yesterday.  Ahmedabad: A court in Gujarat ordered an inquiry yesterday into the death of a protester in police...

Mumbai’s Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria leaves after interrogating Indrani Mukherjea in Mumbai, yesterday.   Mumbai: As investigators waddled through an intriguing web of lies...

President Pranab Mukherjee lays a wreath at Amar Jawan Jyoti-All India War Memorial at India Gate, in New Delhi, yesterday.   New Delhi: India...

Pakistani activists from Shabab-e-Milli party shout anti-Indian slogans during a protest against cross-border fire along the India-Pakistan Line of Control in Peshawar, yesterday.  ...

  ISLAMABAD: The World Bank (WB) yesterday approved $75m credit line for Pakistan that would be mainly utilised for providing cash grants to Temporarily...

A child of a migrant family creeps under the barbed fence near the village of Roszke on the Hungarian-Serbian border yesterday.   Vienna: Hungary...

  Athens: Greece geared up yesterday for a snap election next month, with an opinion poll showing leftist party Syriza ahead despite a wave...

General view after the passage of Tropical Storm Erika in the Eastern Caribbean in Roseau, Dominica, yesterday. MIAMI: Tropical Storm Erika threatened Haiti...

Former president George W Bush talks with Ashantae Martin (left) and Ronjae Pleasant at  Warren Easton Charter High School one day before the...

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi has ordered security forces to prepare to open Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone government and embassy...

Iraqi protesters wave their national flags and shout slogans during a demonstration against corruption in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square yesterday. Baghdad: Thousands of Iraqis...

    Members of the riot police by an armoured vehicle during demonstration in Ankara on June 5, 2013 (AFP)   ANKARA: Turkish police have detained...

Migrants rescued by Libyan coastguard after their boat sank on August 28, 2015 (AFP)   ZUWARA: Pakistani teenager Shefaz Hamza spent nine hours at...

    A boat carrying migrants when it sank is pulled to shore in Zuwara, Libya (AP)   ROME: Italian authorities said Friday they had arrested...

    WASHINGTON: A tech-savvy US teenager from Virginia was sentenced to 11 years and four months in prison on Friday for conspiring to provide...

    MAPUTO: A veteran Mozambican crime journalist was killed in a drive-by shooting in downtown Maputo on Friday in an attack that echoed the...