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The president of the UN General Assembly called Fidel Castro "one of the 20th century's most iconic and influential leaders" at a memorial tribute to the late leader of the Cuban revolution who led his country for nearly 50 years.

Tensions between Russia and the West escalated after Russia's annexation in Crimea in 2014 and its involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

The Syrian government suspended evacuations from eastern Aleppo just hours after they resumed on Friday, saying that rebels had opened fire on a convoy of evacuees at a crossing point with the enclave, state TV reported.

The US Congress will have to deal with "grave" consequences if it blows up the Iran nuclear deal as such a move would make it difficult for America to convince countries like India, China and Japan to enforce sanctions against Tehran, the White House has...

Britain on Thursday became the first country to formally licence an in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment designed to create babies from three people.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed in a phone call that violations of a ceasefire deal agreed for the Syrian city of Aleppo should stop.

Former CIA director Leon Panetta said on Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump risked being blamed after any potential attack on the United States if he refused to receive more regular intelligence briefings.

The chairman of Pakistan's embattled national carrier has resigned following a fatal plane crash that killed 47 people last week, one of the country's deadliest air disasters.

Egypt said on Tuesday it had arrested four people suspected of involvement in a devastating bombing of a Cairo Coptic church, as grief stricken mourners gathered for the funeral of the dead.

US President-elect Donald Trump returned to Twitter on Monday to pour additional scorn on an ostensible CIA report accusing Russia of interfering in the US election to benefit the Republican real estate magnate.

With US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter in Israel for the arrival of the first two of 50 of the warplanes bought from aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, Trump lashed out on Twitter against the programme.

Sweden has run out of garbage and the Scandinavian country has been forced to import rubbish from other countries to keep its state-of-the-art recycling plants going.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned down the offer of a dog as a gift from the Japanese government, according to a Japanese MP. Koichi Hagiuda did not give a reason as to why the gift had been rejected by Putin.

The committee chairman, PML-N Senator Nisar Mohammad, added that while the Constitution does not discriminate based on gender and ensures the rights of all individuals, "society's behaviour towards transgender [people] is appalling", the Dawn reported.

President-elect Donald Trump has said he would not allow Americans to be replaced by foreign workers, in an apparent reference to cases like that of Disney World and other American companies wherein people hired on H-1B visas, including Indians, displaced...

Park Geun-hye could always rely on one unwavering gift throughout a political career that saw a triumphant return as South Korea's first female president to the palatial Blue House where she'd lived as a girl: She always enjoyed the reflected devotion, so...