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Modi leading a big government and business delegation to Switzerland forum, the first Indian PM do so in 21 years

Tsunami warnings mean that a tsunami with significant inundation is possible or is already occurring

A French cosmetics giant last week selected her to be the first woman in a hijab for a mainstream shampoo campaign

Chemical analysis of glass found at Nigerian archaeological site reveals composition entirely unique to region

Rights have come under increasing pressure since President Xi took power in 2012, with widespread arrests of activists

Ginsburg has been on the Supreme Court for 25 years

Chinese government has a tight grip on content distributed in the country, including movies, music and video games

Chinese state oil companies are also willing to become cornerstone investors in the Aramco IPO, reports suggest

The US had previously lost a case with China on how it calculates the price of imports

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After crude remarks on Haiti, more offensive behaviour from US President observed

Initiative is part of an evolving and more aggressive Chinese foreign policy in Latin America to counter US

According to the official toll, at least 20 people were killed in the incident, including 13 foreigners

Marnissi tried unsuccessfully twice to travel to Syria, where Mokeddem settled in late 2014

Much will depend on how rigorously the president can be persuaded to stay 'on message'

Hundreds of people have been killed in Xinjiang in past few years in violence between Uighurs and Han Chinese

Court rules that Osborne drove over a Muslim congregation outside a mosque

"We will take no step back", says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

White House Spokesperson Sarah Sanders says Kabul attack strengthened the resolve of the US to support Afghan forces

Valued at $1.4 billion during July-December, could reach $3 billion by fiscal year-end

Assange is trying to use his Ecuadorian diplomatic status to force Britain to declare him persona non grata

His comments were seen as trying to dismiss the credibility of accusers and was widely criticised by victims

Urges Palestinians to resume long-stalled peace talks with Israel

The new government had to sell projects to repay debts

So far there has been no indication of major gains on the ground by Turkey-backed forces in Afrin

Spill area is an important spawning ground for species

Gafsa recruitment results cause mass outrage among unemployed Tunisians

He doesn't ask for money, only that people exchange what they take

Social Democrats eager to join hands with the Merkel's conservatives

Authorities in cities say main aim is to lure talent to make their labor pools more attractive to companies

WikiLeaks founder seems to be overstaying his welcome

60 per cent of the more than 23,000 trafficking victims rescued in India were children in 2016, government data shows

Wealth of billionaires has grown six times faster than that of ordinary workers since 2010, according to Oxfam

The Indian prime minister invites Islamabad to join hands with New Delhi to fight poverty and disease

'we should not wait until the Americans present their plan', said Palestinian foreign minister

Pope Francis has shunned bulletproof limousines used by his predecessors

In Yemen 8.3 million people are entirely dependent on external food aid

Rescuers will search Monday to see if other vehicles in the area could have been affected

Monday's bomb at a morning market in Yala town was the first deadly attack by suspected insurgents

There have been four government shutdowns since 1990

Receiving a hero’s welcome, Iqbal Lala rues politics of ideology overtaken by one of interests

Some Peruvians, however, did not find it funny comparing a 'gossiping nun' to members of a guerrilla group

The visit was initially scheduled for December before being postponed

The guest posted a desperate plea on Facebook: "Pray for me. I may die"

The casualties were occurred in air strikes on the village of Jalbara

Taliban claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack

French FM presses Turkey to halt its offensive against Kurdish militia who have been battling jihadists

Erdogan gave the warning after pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party called on people to take to the streets

India's president sacked 20 lawmakers for holding jobs in government despite laws forbidding the practice

Parents of the two siblings are also physically challenged, leaving the girl as the sole backbone of the family