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New York/Washington: An American lawmaker will be introducing a bill to “completely eliminate” the H-1B visa programme and take away the pathway to...

Damascus: A new round of clashes between Druze armed groups and government forces in the province of Sweida in southern Syrian had subsided Friday...

Kathmandu: The newly-formed Nepali Communist Party (NCP) led by former prime minister Pushpakamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ was officially registered with...

Geneva: The UN’s top human rights body was holding a one-day special session Friday to highlight hundreds of killings at a hospital in Sudan’s Darfur...

Islamabad: Justice Aminuddin Khan was on Friday sworn in as the first chief justice of the newly established Federal Constitutional Court (FCC),...

Dubai: Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it travelled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday, a US official said, turning...

Belem: The world’s climate leaders are conceding that Earth’s warming will shoot past a hard limit they set a decade ago in hopes of keeping the...

Chinese astronauts stranded after debris hit craft return to earth beijing: Three Chinese astronauts, who aborted their departure home after their...

Deir Istiya: Israeli settlers torched and defaced a mosque in a Palestinian village in the central West Bank overnight, scribbling hateful messages in...

Kyiv: Ukraine’s top military commander said on Thursday he visited troops holding the front line in a key eastern city besieged by Russian forces,...

Dhaka: A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Thursday said it will deliver judgement on November 17 in a case against deposed prime minister Sheikh...

Dhaka: Bangladesh’s interim government Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus on Thursday announced that a referendum to endorse a political charter will be...