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DILI: East Timor President Francisco “Lu Olo” Guterres said on Friday he was dissolving parliament and would call new elections in a bid to...

SEOUL: Female hockey players from the rival Koreas were paired up with each other Thursday to form their first-ever Olympic squad during next month’s...

YEMEN: A senior al Qaeda leader has called on Muslims "everywhere" to rise up and kill Jews and Americans in response to US President...

BAGHDAD: Turkey and Iraq are in talks for a joint operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) presence in the Sinjar province of...

SEOUL: South Koreans seem generally happy looking for the North Koreans at their Olympics, but aren’t as pleased about sharing a team with them. The...

RAMALLAH: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees faces its worst funding crisis ever after the United States froze tens of millions of dollars in...

ST PETERSBURG: The Priozersky City Court in Russia’s Leningrad region has sentenced priest Gleb Grozovsky to 14 years in a high-security penal colony for...

DUBAI: Saudi security forces shot and killed a man suspected of involvement in “terrorist crimes” in an exchange of fire in the eastern part...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong, 21, was sentenced to a second jail term of three months on Wednesday for what a...

WASHINGTON: A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer was arrested at a US airport on Monday night in connection with charges that he illegally...

BEIJING: The Chinese government said on Wednesday that it does not need Taiwan’s permission to open new air routes, after Taipei complained that a...

JEDDAH: For years Areej al-Ghamdi could only cheer her favourite football team from home, but everything changed on Friday when Saudi Arabia allowed women...

WASHINGTON: There is a slim chance of the first death-row Indian-American prisoner being executed on the scheduled date of February 23 because of a...

LONDON: Nigel Farage’s surprise call for Britain to prepare for a second EU referendum has ignited hopes among anti-Brexit campaigners that both sides of...

KARACHI: Police claimed to have recovered a newborn baby girl and arrested two women, allegedly involved in her kidnapping on Wednesday. According to SSP South...

MIAMI: Last year was the most expensive in US history for natural disasters, with a series of fires and hurricanes that cost $306 billion,...

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Lahore Women Wing President and Punjab Assembly Member (MPA) Faiza Malik on Tuesday urged the Punjab government to hold the...