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The Kremlin spokesman said that in talks with Assad, Putin had underlined "that a huge distance has been travelled towards restoring Syrian statehood and the country's territorial integrity".

The group stepped on the landmine as they went to collect firewood in the village of Kyauk Yan. The military and ethnic insurgents have blamed each other over the incident.

Iranian FM on Monday said the United States had declined to issue him a visa to attend the UNSC's meeting scheduled in New York later this week to discuss US-Iran tensions over the killing of Iranian military commander.

Fires have razed more than 8 million hectares of land across Australia. Two men were reported missing in New South Wales on Tuesday.

Hours after Weinstein's New York trial started on Monday, Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey charged Weinstein with the sexual assault of two unidentified women in 2013.

Warning that even nuclear non-proliferation can no longer be taken for granted, he said the 'cauldron of tensions' globally is leading more and more countries to take 'unpredicted decisions with unpredictable consequences and a profound risk of miscalcula...

Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn executive skipped bail nearly a week ago, fleeing Japan where he was awaiting trial on multiple counts of financial misconduct that he denies.

The foreign ministry of Iraq summoned US ambassador Matthew Tueller to condemn strikes by the US on Iraq that killed a top Iranian general, an Iraqi commander and other local fighters.

Like his predecessor, a young Esmail Ghaani faced the carnage of Iran's eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s and later joined the newly founded Quds, or Jerusalem, Force.

After a US drone strike in Iraq killed Iran’s top security officer, prompting concerns about the possibility of a new war in the Middle East, that oft-forgotten paperwork became a reason for spiking anxiety among many Americans.

The US strike on Baghdad international airport targeted a convoy carrying Soleimani and his top Baghdad-based adviser Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of Iraq's powerful Hashed al-Shaabi force.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the US bears responsibility for all consequences of its 'rogue adventurism'.

This week North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that the world would soon see his country's "new strategic weapon" and that there was no longer reason for Pyongyang to be bound by a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile...

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission had directed the shut down of around 2,000 base transceiver stations, affecting about 1 crore users in 32 districts that share border with India and Myanmar.

The groundbreaking case had been brought by Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, who were among the first to form a civil partnership under the new rules.

There were 27 cases of "viral pneumonia of unknown origin" reported in Wuhan, in central Hubei province, the city's health commission said in a statement.