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Peruvian government's emergency department tweeted that it registered a magnitude of 7.2...

(Eds: With tweet)New Delhi, May 26 (PTI) A day after being appointed prime minister for a second term, Narendra Modi Sunday called on Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu.Sources described it as a courtesy call.Modi reached the vice president house here to mee...

TEHRAN (FNA)- "Yellow Vest" protesters who gathered in Paris on Saturday for a 28th round of demonstrations stressed that they were not going to vote for either of France's two leading parties in the upcoming European election....

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned attempts by certain Arab countries to normalize ties with Israel as well as a forthcoming conference in Bahrain in support of a controversial proposal by the United States....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Iraqi President Barham Salih, in a meeting in Baghdad, exchanged views on ways to broaden bilateral ties and increase regional stability through further security cooperation....

TEHRAN (FNA)- The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is urging Russia to hand over Ukrainian ships and crew detained for "border violation" off Crimea in 2018. Moscow hit back, saying the body has no jurisdiction here....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mohsen Salehinia said that the president of Italian Parts Manufacturers' Association and chairman of Autopromatec Exhibition have voiced readiness to enhance cooperation with Iranian au...

JERUSALEM, May 26 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today he believed a deal to form a new coalition government remained possible only days ahead of the deadline as speculation mounted over the possibility of fresh elections.......

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Knesset meeting Sunday that he doesn't want the country to be dragged into re-elections, but that "perhaps there is someone who desires it," referring Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman. "I th...

Nick Jonas recently wrote a heartfelt love letter to his wife Priyanka Chopra and instantly broke down the internet for being such romantic and all....

Yisrael Beytenu chief rejects claims he is to blame for stalled coalition talks. 'Accept our draft law and everything will fall into place.'...

The pardoning of offenses is a tradition at graduation rites of the PMA, but the rape jokes are a recent addition. by Rosette Adel...

LONDON, May 26 — Environment minister and prominent pro-Brexit campaigner Michael Gove said today he would be running to replace Theresa May as British prime minister, Sky News reported. "I can confirm that I will be putting my name forward to.....

KUCHING, May 25 — The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry will take prompt action if there are complaints on damaged wet food items in conjunction with the festive seasons. Its deputy minister Chong Chieng Jen said he encouraged the......

The Philippine embassy in the United Kingdom has inaugurated a Sentro Rizal in London that aims to promote Philippine arts, culture and language, especially among children of overseas Filipinos. by Janvic Mateo...

BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2019, which opened in the city of Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on Sunday....

BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) -- For the past two decades, the botched theory of the "coming collapse of China's economy" has been debunked repeatedly by realities. If one must find a match for its fallacy, the theory of "decoupling from China&...

New Delhi, May 26 (PTI) A day after being appointed prime minister for a second term, Narendra Modi Sunday called on Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu.Sources described it as a courtesy call.Modi reached the vice president house here to meet Naidu this morn...

The quake, at a moderate depth of 114 kilometers struck at 2:41 am, 80 kilometers southeast of the village of Lagunas and 158 kilometers east-northeast of the larger town of Yurimaguas....

Patna, May 26 (PTI) Non-matriculates, PhD holders,doctors and engineers, Bihar has sent people from differenteducational background to the 17th Lok Sabha.Ajay Mandal and Mahabali Singh, the two JD (U) MPsfrom Bhagalpur and Karakat, respectively, did not f...

"But Katrina and I did Tiger Zinda Hai just before that and Ali said that we need a girl who is 'hindustani'," said Salman Khan...

Starting 31 January 2019, India have a 4-8 win-loss record in international matches across formats....

Meeting for the first time since the alleged opposition-led ouster plot against him was revealed, President Duterte broke the ice and teased Vice President Leni Robredo about giving him the cold shoulder lately....

Swiss Caroline Steffen and Aussie Dimity Lee Duke gear up for another clash of power and endurance tipped to go down-to-the-wire as they banner the elite cast in the Century Tuna IRONMAN 70.3 Subic Bay presented by Big Boss Cement which gets going Sunday ...

Elon Musk has dismissed media reports that claimed that his Electric Vehicle (EV) company Tesla has gone as far as the office washrooms to cut costs from....

ICC World Cup 2019 Warm-up: Catch all the action of the ICC World Cup 2019 practice match between Pakistan and Bangladesh....

All airports and immigration authorities have been alerted by the CBI this week to prevent him from leaving the country and intimate the agency on any possible move...

Shaamil Karim, a grade 11 student at the Indian High School Dubai, was selected from thousands of entries....

Recently, several experts including former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan and former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian had expressed doubts over India's revised economic growth data....

A man cooks traditional curries before Muslims break their fast at a mosque during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in Banda Aceh, Indonesia on May 26, 2019....

Father of mentally disabled haredi youth arrested Wednesday in Jerusalem discusses trauma his son experienced. 'We are shocked.'...

On the bankers' plea, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) had on May 17 annulled voting by homebuyers and lenders on NBCC's bid and allowed renegotiation on the offer by May 30....

The arrest was on charge of sexual harassment in electronic form by stalking....

Is Karnataka government on edge? The alliance between strange bedfellows the Congress and JD(S) in Karnataka has been in survival mode since it was cobbled together last May. And now, speculation is rife in the Grand Old Party that two Congress legislatur...

Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who is leading a military offensive against the government in Tripoli, said in an interview published Sunday he will...

The clip was slowed down so that Pelosi's movements appeared sluggish and her speech seemed slow and laboured....

A diplomatic row is brewing between Germany and China over allegations of Chinese reporters snooping around a military base during a visit by Chancellor Angela Merkel this month....

New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) The massive victory of Bharatiya Janata Party in Delhi may change the politics in the national capital as the ruling Aam Aadmi Party, which had come to power with a thumping majority in 2015 state elections, failed to take lead in...

President Duterte made a controversial joke about rape again, saying it was the top offense allegedly committed by some Philippine Military Academy (PMA) cadets....

The actors will be seen in 'Bharat' on 10 June....

KUALA LUMPUR, May 26 — The Pakatan Harapan (PH) government did not neglect the welfare of taxi drivers and operators and has in fact provided the appropriate assistance no less than the previous government. Deputy Transport Minister Datuk......

Lenders have shown reluctance to acquire up to 2,207 unsold flats worth Rs 1,756 crore as proposed by NBCC in its revised offer....

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on Sunday that Tehran would strongly defend itself against any military or economic aggression and called on European states to do more to preserve a nuclear agreement his country signed with them. Speaking in a n...

A 23-year-old man has been arrested here for allegedly cyber stalking and sexually harassing his former intermediate classmate on social media after she rejected his proposal, police said on Sunday.Th...