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A seven-year-old girl came home from school earlier this month upset, impatient to tell her mother a story. The second-grader said her teacher in Maplewood, New Jersey, had begun to pull off a hijab ...

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said on Saturday that the world’s top oil exporter aims to reach zero-net emissions by 2060 and more than double its annual target to reduce carbon emissions. ...

Bangladesh's security agencies on Saturday arrested a man in his 30s, who is believed to be the second key suspect behind the recent slew of violence against Hindus and mob attacks on temples in B...

Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi travelled to Kabul on Thursday along with ISI chief Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed on an unannounced visit to meet Taliban leaders and vowed to provide h...

Sixteen people were killed in an explosion and fire at a gunpowder and chemicals plant in Russia’s western Ryazan province on Friday, Russian state TV said, and one man was taken to hospital wit...

A prominent Chinese pianist, Li Yundi, has been detained on prostitution suspicion in Beijing, state-run news outlets in China reported on Thursday. Li, 39, who had gained celebrity status in China a...

At least six people were killed in an attack at a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh’s Cox Bazar on Friday, a police official said — the latest incident of violence in the world’s largest r...

The US would come to Taiwan’s defence and has a commitment to defend the island China claims as its own, US President Joe Biden said on Thursday, though the White House said later there was no c...

Tens of thousands of South Africans took part in special prayers across the country on Friday after four Indian-origin brothers were abducted on Wednesday morning while on their way to school. Zidan,...

The Queen, who is 95, spent Wednesday night in hospital, Buckingham Palace has confirmed after the Sun broke the story. She was supposed to fly to Northern Ireland on Wednesday to mark the 100th anni...