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Islamabad: The UN children's agency on Saturday urged Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to immediately lift a lingering ban on girls' education to save the...

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of the US Education Department, advancing a campaign...

DHAKA: Former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s BNP on Friday said it had no objection to the return of rival Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League to politics...

Cape Town (South Africa): The US Embassy in South Africa received a list of over 67,000 Afrikaners interested in refugee status under Trump’s...

Seoul: A top Russian security official met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Friday and thanked him for the country’s support of...

Jakarta: Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki in south-central Indonesia erupted three times into Friday, sending ash 8,000 metres high. The Mount Lewotobi Laki...

KYIV: Russian drones pummelled the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa, injuring three people and sparking massive fires, officials said on Friday,...

Cairo: Sudan’s military said on Friday it retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last heavily guarded bastion of rival paramilitary forces in...

Halifax (Nova Scotia): From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known company is pumping a slurry of...

ISTANBUL: Turkiye’s main opposition leader renewed calls for peaceful demonstrations on Friday following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu,...

London: Britain's Heathrow Airport was closed for the day Friday after a fire knocked out its power, disrupting flights for hundreds of thousands of...

New York: US Supreme Court justices will hear next month Mumbai terror attack accused Tahawwur Rana’s renewed application, submitted to Chief Justice...