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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...

Dehradun, India:  Rescue teams deployed Tuesday to India's Himalayan region after flash floods tore down a mountain valley, appearing to wipe away much of a town, where at least four people were...

Thousands of people are expected to pour into Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka on Tuesday for the first anniversary of the deadly protests that ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to attend...

 People smugglers who use social media to promote their services to migrants seeking to enter Britain illegally could face five years in prison under plans announced by the government.Prime Minister...

Jerusalem:  The United Arab Emirates has begun construction on a major pipeline to carry desalinated water from Egypt to southern Gaza, according to multiple sources.Technical teams sent by the UAE...

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip: On the pink walls of Nasser hospital’s child malnutrition ward, cartoon drawings show children running, smiling, and playing with flowers and balloons.Beneath the pictures,...

UNITED NATIONS/GENEVA:  Famine is "playing out" in the Gaza Strip, a global hunger monitor said in an alert issued on Tuesday as international criticism of Israel intensifies over rapidly worsening...

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia: The leaders of Cambodia and Thailand arrived in Malaysia on Monday for talks aimed at securing a ceasefire in their fierce border conflict, a Malaysian official said, amid an...

Fighting on the Thai-Cambodian border extended into a third day, and new flashpoints emerged on Saturday as both sides said they had acted in self-defence in the border dispute and called on the other...