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Ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party has been gripped by in-fighting in run up to November polls

Turkey last month made a dramatic shift in policy, sending warplanes to attack the Islamic State in northern Syria

Binhai New Area, where blasts occurred on Wednesday, is a giant logistics hub more than twice size of Hong Kong

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Bengali newspaper had questioned if it was ethical for judges to speak with appellants' families outside of court

Iran, desperate for funds and investment to help its economy, crippled by decades of sanction

Villagers and Israeli NGO Rabbis for Human Rights say no one was inside tent, which was housing food for livestock

The attacker used a long samurai sword to stab a French man and a Chinese woman

Asian shares and Asia-Pacific currencies suffered their biggest two-day selloff since 1998 this week

Mark Toner says US government raised this travel issue with senior Russian foreign ministry officials

The visit will mark rivals' first attempt in months to restart talks

The Swiss food giant has always maintained the product is safe to eat, and has continued to sell it in other countries

Uzbekistan Airways says passengers would be weighed in airport departure zones and results would be kept secret

Police say blast occured when people were coming out of mosque after morning prayers

A refrigerator truck packed with explosives blew up inside Jamila market at around 6am, police say

The initiative, 'la mixite’, calls for the adoption of secular laws to make schools ‘more French’

A crash in commodity prices as well as slowing global growth have made India a attractive bet for foreign investors

European benchmark Brent oil for September delivery gained 48 cents to $49.66 a barrel in London

Ban Ki-moon said that he, as UN secretary general, will not tolerate any action by people who replaced trust with fear

The official Xinhua says 701 people have been hospitalised, 71 of them in critical condition

Indian BSF inspector general says that neither will they give, nor will they receive sweets

There was no immediate reaction from Islamabad, which has in the past denied such accusations from Kabul

Taliban were in police uniform and had police vehicles and entered a police compound where they killed all 14 policemen

It had issued a 48-hour deadline threatening to kill him if Muslim women prisoners were not released from Egyptian jails

Nestle was banned from making or selling noodles in India after tests found lead levels exceeded statutory limits

Police arrest an estate agent who swindled some 1,000 investors on promise that only Brahmins would live in complex

The six, who include poets, bloggers and a journalist, all live in the southern city of Barisal

Turkish president says a state subjected to an armed attack has right to defend itself with arms

Officials say the men were targeted while they were travelling on a coast road east of the Arabian Sea port of Mukalla

It is more than twice the size of any of the existing fleet of 32 "Sharp Kite" drones used by Taiwanese forces

Elephants could mostly be extinct by the end of the next decade

South Korea's news agency says Choe was executed by firing squad in May after voicing opposition to Kim's policies

It generated widespread interest on social networks including accusations media were disseminating an old story

Spokesperson for Pakistani Embassy in Kabul says process has been 'temporarily delayed' due to security reasons

"McDonald's is not here to feed all the hungry people in the country!" says the note

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Interior Ministry says Omar al Nasser was arrested while smuggling a large amount of amphetamines

Reports say it took the artist 21 years to plan and build the sky ladder

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 120 people were injured in raids and death toll may rise

They are women desperate for children, youth seeking jobs, and the sick hoping for a cure

Pichai, who started at Google in 2004, lived in a two-room apartment where he slept on the living room floor

The US Forces, Japan, had no immediate comment

Airport will spend almost $250,000 to build a prayer room which will open for Emirates' inaugural flight on...

Four people were killed and 58 others were wounded in residential neighbourhoods of Damascus

Bic initially defended its position by saying the slogan was borrowed from a women's business blog but later deleted the post

many MH370 family members remain deeply suspicious of Malaysia's handling of the aviation enigma

The minister posted a video online showing a black migrant attacking a resident when the footage was actually from another country

Military officials warn of a major capability gap opening up with rivals China and Pakistan in case of further delay

Local official says Cessna propeller plane of Komala Air crashed on runway of Ninia airport in Yahukimo district

Officials say at least 103 people have been killed and more than one million displaced by flooding