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SYDNEY:  Australia accused Iran on Tuesday of executing two antisemitic arson attacks in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne and gave Tehran's ambassador seven days to leave the country, its...

TOKYO - The dollar and longer-dated US Treasuries slid on Tuesday after President Donald Trump announced he was firing a Federal Reserve governor, an unprecedented move that further undermines...

 Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Monday killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said. ...

CAIRO/JERUSALEM:  Israeli planes and tanks pounded the eastern and northern outskirts of Gaza City overnight Saturday to Sunday, destroying buildings and homes, residents said, as Israeli leaders...

HANOI/BEIJING:  Vietnam plans to evacuate more than half a million people and has ordered boats to stay ashore, while the southern Chinese city of Sanya closed businesses and public transport on...

 Thousands of Australians joined pro-Palestinian rallies on Sunday, organisers said, amid strained relations between Israel and Australia following the centre-left government's decision to...

 LAS VEGAS :When "The Wizard of Oz at Sphere" opens off the Las Vegas Strip on Aug. 28, audiences will experience the 1939 film classic in a way its creators probably never thought possible.Nearly...

Elon Musk was ordered on Wednesday by a federal judge to face a lawsuit by voters accusing the world's richest person of defrauding them into signing a petition to support the U.S. Constitution...

BENGALURU:  Indian police have exhumed human remains in a temple town in the country's south, officials said, as part of an investigation into allegations that hundreds of murder and rape...

Is technology more job augmenting or job replacing? This has been a long-standing debate. But recent academic work suggests that technology has been a net destroyer of jobs for decades.Artificial...

At least three more people have died in heavy rains in northern China, state media said on Tuesday, taking to 13 the death toll in recent storms across the region, with five still missing and no...

  Air Canada flight attendants extended their strike into a fourth day on Tuesday, although the union said both sides had resumed talks as hundreds of thousands of passengers had flights canceled...

NEW DELHI:  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to meet President Donald Trump during a visit to the United States next month to attend the UN General Assembly meeting, the Indian Express...

GAZA: Student Maha Ali was determined to become a journalist one day and report on events in Gaza. Now she and other students have just one ambition: finding food as hunger ravages the Palestinian...

NEW DELHI - From McDonald's and Coca-Cola to Amazon and Apple, US-based multinationals are facing calls for a boycott in India as business executives and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...

Jerusalem:  Israel's far right pressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go harder against Hamas, ahead of a UN Security Council meeting Sunday on the premier's bid to conquer Gaza...

For decades, hundreds of thousands of Egyptian families have lived in apartments for as little as less than a dollar a month, including in some of Cairo’s most expensive neighborhoods. Even as...

U.S. trade partners such as Switzerland, Brazil and India were still scrambling to get a better deal on Thursday as President Donald Trump's higher tariff rates on imports from dozens of...

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck 128 kilometres off Taiwan's northeastern coast on Thursday, the island's Central Weather Administration said, with no immediate reports of damage.The quake,...

SAINT-LAURENT-DE-LA-CABRERISSE, France: Firefighters in southern France struggled on Wednesday to control a massive wildfire that has already swept through an area bigger than Paris, as the blaze...