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An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Thursday acquitted five Taliban members accused of assassinating former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi. Two senior police officials have been sentenced to 17…

J Y Pillay, an Indian-origin veteran civil servant, was today appointed as Singapore’s acting president until a new head of state is sworn in later this month. Mr. Pillay, 83,…

Pakistan has suspended talks with the U.S. administration and deferred official bilateral visits in protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s policy review speech, in which he alleged Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan.…

Tropical storm Harvey continued to batter Texas on Wednesday with rain and floods leaving atleast 20 people dead and submerging homes and turning streets, highways into lakes. Thousands of emergency…

In a significant shift of policy that creates a clear dividing line between Britain’s two main political parties, Labour has announced that it wants to keep Britain in the European…

Health authorities in Catalonia say a 51-year-old German woman has died from injuries suffered in the August 17 attack in Barcelona, raising the death toll in attacks there and the…

Pakistan is using a perceived threat of encirclement by India as an “excuse” to continue its support to terrorists, a Trump administration official has said, dismissing concerns over Indian development…

  U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday he is confident that U.S.-backed Iraqi forces will finish off the Islamic State militants clinging to strongholds that are shrinking in…

  Britain’s Royal Navy sailors have completed a five-month anti-drug-smuggling operation in the Gulf region and Indian Ocean during which narcotics worth $515 million were seized, the Ministry of Defence…

A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer collided with a tanker early Monday in waters east of Singapore and the Strait of Malacca, and at least 10 sailors are missing. The Navy…

There will be no war on the Korean peninsula, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday, saying Seoul effectively had a veto over US military action in response to…

U.S. President Donald Trump disbanded two high-profile business advisory councils on Wednesday after corporate CEOs quit in protest at his remarks blaming violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, not only on white…