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The outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has again called for India and Pakistan to resolve their differences through dialogue and has expressed concern over the tensions along the Line of Control.

In the wake of the Berlin truck attack, police departments around the US are making a show of force at places where crowds gather at Christmas time.

Japan has decided to shut down an experimental fast-breeder nuclear reactor that drained government finances for years without living up to hopes it would be a savior for the resource-poor country's energy needs.

Turkish police have detained a man who fired shots in front of the US embassy in Ankara, several hours after the Russian ambassador to Turkey was killed in an attack.

Police in Pakistan's Sindh province have warned 13 lawmakers and a bureaucrat, who were part of the recently-passed Minorities Bill which criminalises forced conversions in the Muslim-majority country, that religious parties and defunct organisations coul...

President-elect Donald Trump has said on Twitter the United States should let China keep the US Navy's unmanned underwater glider that it seized in the South China Sea.

The battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State is leaving a legacy of environmental damage and health risks that will pose dangers to people for years to come.

Twenty-three cities in China including capital Beijing have activated red alerts and enforced odd-even rules to restrict traffic as the country tries to address severe pollution after the sky turned grey across much of northern part of the country on Satu...

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped South Carolina Republican Representative Mick Mulvaney as his budget director, naming a tough-on-spending conservative and an advocate of balancing the federal budget to the important post.

Greek lawmakers have approved a pension handout that has set the country on a collision course with hardline European creditors who accuse the struggling eurozone member of defiance. A total of 196 lawmakers out of 257 present from across the party divid...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that the liberation of the northern city of Aleppo from the rebels changes the time into a history being written now, according to state news agency SANA.

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus on Thursday hinted at major overhaul in the White House press briefing room.

The Central African Republic has seen an "alarming increase" in human rights violations since August, with at least 100 people killed, the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSCA said.

An Indian-origin computer science student arrested after a multinational operation to crackdown on young hackers has been charged with carrying out cyber attacks on a chat site, according to officials.

France's newly-appointed Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Tuesday won the National Assembly's confidence vote with a large majority, according to the lower house of parliament.

Many unaccompanied children, possibly more than 100, are trapped in a building that is under heavy attack in besieged eastern Aleppo in Syria, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said in a statement on Tuesday, citing an unnamed doctor in the city.