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ANKARA: Turkey today vowed complete support for Baku and called on Armenia to give up its “aggression” after heavy fighting...

NEW DELHI: India today reported the number of coronavirus cases in the country had passed six million, as the pandemic...

LONDON: The British government wants university students to be able to return home for Christmas, culture minister Oliver Dowden said...

MELBOURNE: An overnight curfew in Australia’s second-largest city will be lifted this week, officials said today, even as the global...

JAKARTA: Indonesia reported 3,874 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases to 275,213, official data from...

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s top diplomat today condemned US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “blatant ignorance” for suggesting President Donald Trump was trampling...

TEHRAN: Iran’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose by 207 to 25,222 today, with the total number of identified...

PARIS: Four people were stabbed today near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris that was...

WASHINGTON: Amid a flurry of major rulings early this summer, the US Supreme Court in an under-the-radar case handed a...

SYDNEY: Thousands of Australian students today protested to demand investment in renewable-energy projects, though Covid-19 restrictions confined the events to...

SEOUL:  North Korea expressed regret today over the death of a missing South Korean, saying it shot him as part...

CHICAGO: The scientific head of the US government programme designed to speed development of Covid-19 vaccines said yesterday he supports...

BANGKOK: Wearing white ribbons, publicly hacking off their hair and making Hunger Games salutes — Thailand's high school students are...

WASHINGTON: Three US states reported record one-day increases in new Covid-19 cases yesterday, according to state data. Montana reported 330...

NEW YORK: Mary Trump, the niece of Donald Trump and author of a recent memoir that painted an unflattering portrait...

Tourism has been one of the sectors worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. With closed borders and restrictions, many tourist...

Climate change is driving the scale and impact of recent wildfires that have raged in California, say scientists. Their analysis...

LONDON: Facebook said on Thursday (Sep 24) it has dismantled three networks of fake accounts which could be used by...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to the media after the Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington,...

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday launched a fresh mocking attack on John McCain, the Republican senator who died in...