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The state department said on Sunday that it had ordered family members of US embassy personnel in Kiev, Ukraine, to leave the country amid increasing concerns about a possible Russian invasion. The e...

The pandemic that has convulsed the world for more than two years is entering a “new phase” globally, and the rapid spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus offers “plausible...

A British court ruled on Monday that the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal a decision that would allow for his extradition to the US to face charges under the Espionage Act in connection wit...

Justice Ayesha Malik on Monday took oath as the first woman judge of Pakistan’s Supreme Court, in what can be described as a watershed moment in the judicial history of Pakistan. Chief Justice ...

A Taliban delegation led by acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Sunday started three days of talks in Oslo with western officials and Afghan civil society representatives amid a deteriorating...

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a bid to bar Harvard University and the University of North Carolina from considering race in undergraduate admissions in a case that imperils affirmative...

The UAE on Monday intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles that the Houthi terror group fired towards its capital Abu Dhabi, the Ministry of Defence said, days after two Indians and a Pakistan...

A passenger who refused to wear a mask on a flight from Dublin to New York pulled down his pants and exposed his buttocks, threw a can at a passenger and put his cap on the captain’s head and to...

Overseeing a small island dominated by a castle, seals and a pub, an English council is searching for a new king or queen. Claimants to the ancient throne, carved from old oak and soaked in the beer ...

Ukrainian soldiers, Kalashnikov rifles slung over their shoulders, patrolled through a silent, snowy forest, passing homes so long abandoned that vines twirl through the broken windows. The fields ar...