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Ankara: Greece's position on the number of controversial issues, including congratulations expressed by NATO to Turkey on the anniversary of its victory in the War of Independence, cannot weaken the ties between the alliance and Ankara, since the organization...

Colombo: Former Sri Lankan army chief, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, has urged the people to take to the streets to denounce police attacks on peaceful demonstrators.Fonseka, a leader of the main opposition party SJB, was quoted as saying...

Yangon: A military-run court in Myanmar has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to a further three years in prison on election fraud charges, her lawyers told the BBC.Suu Kyi -- the country's former leader -- has now been sentenced...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur High Court on Thursday sentenced Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, to 10 years in prison in connection with a corruption scandal around the national investment fund 1Malaysia Development...

Kyiv: A team from the UN nuclear watchdog Thursday headed for a Russian-held nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine despite fighting in the Zaporizhzhia region.BBC reported that the inspectors' route is being shelled.The chief of the UN mission said:...

Moscow: The chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say.Maganov, 67, was being treated at the city's Central Clinical Hospital and died from his injuries, BBC reported,...

Washington: Sarah Palin has lost a special US Congressional election in Alaska in a district that was Republican-held for nearly five decades.The winner, Democrat Mary Peltola, will be the first Alaskan Native to serve as a lawmaker in...

Riyadh: Saudi officers foiled an attempt to smuggle 47 million amphetamine pills into the country, the media reported, describing it as the largest drug trafficking operation in the kingdom. Two Pakistanis and six Syrians were arrested in a...

Islamabad: An anti-terrorism court in Islamabad has extended the interim bail of former Pakistan Prime Minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan till September 12 in a terrorism case related to his controversial remarks about female sessions court judge...

Lisbon: Portugal's health minister resigned hours after reports emerged that a pregnant Indian tourist died on being turned away from a maternity ward, media reports said.The 34-year-old Indian woman reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest while being transferred between Lisbon...