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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s ousting of the federal tax agency’s chief is unlikely to quell the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service’s impr

LONDON: Two health workers in Saudi Arabia have become infected with a potentially fatal new SARS-like virus after catching it from patients in their care — the first evidence of such transmi

JERUSALEM: On the surface, the Arab League’s improved peace initiative offers Israel everything it ever dreamed of — normal relations with an entire region that has long objected to the

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,