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A long period without its familiar hourly chimes would be the first since 1976

Brussels has offered Turkey financial help and an acceleration of its drive for EU membership among other sweeteners

Human rights group calls policy "flagrant violation of human rights"; says it strengthens racial discrimination

Bijan Zanganeh's comments coincide with ramped up efforts to attract international oil majors back to Tehran

Polling shows Justin Trudeau's Liberals with a strong lead on the eve of the vote after a gruelling 11-week campaign

Critics say right-wing Hindu extremists have been emboldened by BJP's victory in India's general election last year

Masoom Stanekzai says Taliban insurgents and possibly Pakistani operatives used MSF facility in Kunduz as 'safe place'

Britain's Counter-Extremism Strategy is designed primarily to counter ideology promoted by IS militants and al Qaeda

Koppu is second strongest storm to hit disaster-plagued Southeast Asian archipelago this year

BJP members had earlier beaten up lawmaker Engineer Rashid for hosting a beef party

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef was reassured of the progress of the ongoing investigation, Saudi Press Agency says

WHO recommends that maximum speed in urban areas should be set no higher than 50 kilometres per hour

Anti-Islam movement, PEGIDA is scheduled to hold a rally in Dresden on Monday night

Report says increasing number of Muslims in the prison is 'affecting the social nature of the jail'

Coronal holes aren't an alien phenomenon

The offenders also drew swastikas and wrote racist slogans at a Muslim burial ground in the nearby municipality

Attack on agricultural worker Mila Abtum underscores mounting sense of panic and anger over Palestinian attacks

Shortly afterwards security forces narrowly escaped a second attack, when police were called away to another location

Growth to drop to single digits in 2016 from between 10 per cent and 15 per cent over the past decade, a report said

A newspaper said that the motormouths had been ordered to stop making controversial remarks

According to media, she was distressed after missing a connecting flight and having no money to buy a new ticket

US plans a meeting in coming days with Russian, Saudi and Turkish leaders to seek an end to Syrian conflict

Officials say $100 million jet sustained significant damage which forced it to jettison its fuel tanks and munitions

This exercise is a message to China and rest of South Asia, as it says we're not backing off, says Indian analyst

Previously taboo display comes as rebels revive Soviet customs to cement their Moscow-backed rule

Wan Junaidi says Unless there is rain, there is no way human intervention can put out fires

BJP leader refutes allegation that the boys were told to go to Pakistan

Muslim residents including members of hardline group Islamic Defenders Front have demanded that 10 churches be closed

Singh’s wife recalls in book how the singer was under surveillance during trip to Pakistan in 1979

In 2013, the government intervened to overturn the conviction of a 15-year-old rape victim sentenced to 100 lashes

With Hungary closing its border with Croatia to migrants at midnight on Friday, the flow has been diverted to Slovenia

Yemenis often say there are three guns for every person

Key measures in the plan include allowing parents to have passports removed from 16 and 17-year-olds

Polling released Sunday on the eve of the vote showed the Liberals with a seven-point lead ahead of the Tories

Angry mob petrol-bombed Zahid Ahmed around 10 days ago

Uber has been through controversy since it was launched in Canada last year

Obama's directive comes 90 days after the UN Security Council endorsed the accord signed in Vienna in July

The American actor says she is inspired by Kanye West

Several countries have evacuated their citizens from Tunisia after the beachside massacre in June

Kerry says it will be easier to make a case for funding to Congress if the United States was on UNESCO's board

To all who are worried about their privacy, there is an easy solution: turn your location settings off for Facebook

Israel's cabinet also imposes more security measures after further Palestinian stabbings on October 17

Hassan Nasrallah speaks during an event commemorating the death of leading Hezbollah figure Hassan Hussein al-Hajj

It is the first time Kerry has confirmed reports of a meeting with both Netanyahu and Abbas

Goal was to see if Russia’s internet could continue to function even though it was cut off from global internet

The country's public human rights officer said conditions some refugees were kept in, were worse than in prisons

A military source in Aden says 300 Sudanese soldiers and officers arrived by sea

Iran will still be "called upon" to refrain from doing work on ballistic missiles designed to carry nuclear weapons

The suspect is said to be at large

Congress president slams Indian premier's statement urging Hindus and Muslims to stop fighting