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Russia, Syria's ally, has long maintained that there is no hard proof linking President Assad's forces to the attacks

Villagers took up butchers' knives, homemade firearms and humiliatingly routed the Taliban

Study shows that work, paid or unpaid, may improve cognitive functioning and prevent memory loss

Alphabet is in talks with the FAA and other stakeholders about setting up an air traffic control system for drones

Thein is contesting elections in Mandalay which is home to leading Ma Ba Tha monk self-styled as 'Burmese bin Laden'

Phone called PRIV will sell for $700, starting Friday, with AT&T being the only American wireless carrier

Canadian pop star was found guilty of vandalism last year for throwing eggs at a neighbour's house

With nearly two million cats on the streets of Israel, the problem of street cats is serious

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has praised recent Palestinian attacks against Israelis

In comparison, SIGAR found that a CNG station in Pakistan costs no more than $500,000 to construct

The fog also caused delays in Paris, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Berlin, Luxembourg and Brussels, affecting Britain the most

The tech-phobic President issued a series of tweets after AKP reclaimed its parliamentary majority in Sunday's vote

Says it was 'unlikely' that the Islamic State group had the capacity to carry out such an attack

Strong winds hit southeast Yemen and high waves flooded seafronts of al Qaeda-held Mukalla and Shehr in Hadramawt

The investigator based his comments on the preliminary examination of the black boxes recovered from the Airbus A321

An Indian national was wounded and died after being taken to hospital, Nepal police spokesperson said

Awaaz, a UK-based group, has announced a 'day of protest' against the Indian premier's visit

Iran and Saudi Arabia have long had uneasy relationship and are backing opposing sides in conflicts in Syria and Yemen

Angela Merkel's chief spokesperson said Germany would 'continue to closely cooperate with the Turkish government'

Rivals say the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is whipping up religious tensions to win the election in Bihar

A clear majority of Iranian legislators said the Islamic republic will not abandon the slogan of "Death to America"

A public prosecutor charged 10 people, including a Saudi prince and Saudi nationals with 'smuggling and selling drugs'

Fears of extremism are rising in Muslim-majority Bangladesh after four atheist bloggers were murdered this year

App will allow you to see what friends wish to do and to track their move

Saharkhiz was arrested for insulting the Supreme Leader of the country, says family

The Uber driver could face life in jail for rape, abduction of his 25-year-old passenger

China and Iran have close diplomatic, economic, trade and energy ties

The country plans to mix used plastic bottles and other waste plastic with bitumen to blacktop its roads

Departing flights and five arrivals were axed from the schedule, 34 other flights had to be brought forward or delayed

IS releases footage showing an unidentified plane flying in the air before exploding and falling downwards

Four people were rescued, the coastguard said in a statement

Three of those convicted are Kuwaiti citizens while two are foreigners

A senior biodiversity conservation official in Indonesia's forestry ministry told AFP the rhino was 'adapting well'

Ministry says Saad bin Marzooq al-Subaie killed Hamad bin Mohammed al-Subaie by running him over with his car

A pair of hunting guides noticed a crack in the ground in a remote ranch of central Wyoming last month

Toll official says there is still so much confusion — no proper communication, no trained staff and no instructions

Iran's Atomic Energy Organization chief arrived in Tokyo on Sunday to hold talks on nuclear safety measures

An investigation found that Zhao Xinwei "improperly discussed" party policies in Xinjiang

About 90m families may qualify for new two-child policy, which would help raise population to 1.45b by 2030

Customs official says dozens of Indian trucks stranded in Nepal due to blockade were making their way across border

C919, a narrow-body jet which can seat 168 passengers, has been under production in Shanghai for over a year

The remains were to be taken in a motorcade to a crematorium in Saint Petersburg for identification

The Egyptian branch of the Islamic State group says it downed the plane

Justice and Development Party won over 49 percent of the vote to secure 315 seats out of 550

Kusum Mehdele of Madhya Pradesh was sweeping the road as part of a cleanliness drive when a boy approached her

The proposed law comes as intelligence agencies and police grapple with monitoring terrorist activity online

Russian transport regulator had reportedly ordered stoppage of A321 aircraft until the causes of the crash were known

Sunday's incident is the latest in a series of recent shootings on US campuses

Emaar, best known for the Burj Khalifa said it had recorded net profit of $230 million between July and September 2015

The revised law has also repealed sex with underage prostitutes as the crime and reclassified it as rape