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AMMAN: Jordan’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday Amman will host a meeting of the so-called “Friends of Syria” group next week to discuss latest developments in Syria’s civi

AMSTERDAM: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court — the permanent war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands — says she has received a complaint about Israel’s 2010 ra

BAGHDAD: At least 15 people were killed in bomb blasts and a shooting in Iraq yesterday, police and hospital sources said.

LAHORE: Pakistani politician Imran Khan yesterday vowed to cooperate with incoming Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on terrorism and other major challenges following key elections.

NEW DELHI: A defendant on trial over a fatal gang-rape in New Delhi last December is critically ill after being attacked in prison, his lawyer said yesterday, weeks after the main accused died in t

SITTWE, Myanmar: Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and Myanmar were ordered to evacuate yesterday as a cyclone bore down on coastal areas home to flood-prone refugee camps for victims o

PYONGYANG, North Korea: An American citizen sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for what Pyongyang has described as hostile acts against the state started life yesterday at a “special prison,

COLOMBO: At least seven people have been killed and two are missing in floods and mudslides following heavy rain across Sri Lanka, the disaster management center said yesterday.

BRUSSELS: A plan to turn Mali into a stable democracy and prevent it from becoming a terrorist haven got a boost yesterday as European nations lined up to pledge hundreds of millions of euros in ai

LONDON: Britain said yesterday there would be “consequences” for Sri Lanka if its leaders did not address international concerns over human rights abuses, ahead of a Commonwealth summit