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The Sri Lanka Navy assisted the Coast Guard to arrest seven Indian fishermen poaching illegally in the northern seas of the island country, the navy said on Tuesday.

Russia's ambassador to Turkey has died after being shot in Ankara, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman.

An underwater drone taken by a Chinese naval vessel in the South China Sea last week is part of U.S. surveillance efforts in the disputed waterway, but Beijing won't likely make a big fuss about its handover, Chinese state media and experts said.

US President-elect Donald Trump got plenty of attention - but not the kind he was looking for - after a tweet today calling out China for its seizure of an unmanned US naval probe.

According to an audio reported on Friday by The New York Times, Clinton, who lost the election to Republican Donald Trump said her defeat was in part due to Putin's "personal beef against me"

The head of the Tibetan government-in-exile said on Friday he was encouraged by US President-elect Donald Trump’s tough stand on China and urged him to ditch backdoor diplomacy on furthering the Tibetan cause and be more confrontational.

A noted Indian-American expert on India-US civil nuclear deal has been re-appointed to the Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee of the US Department of Commerce.

The UK has registered a 45 per cent rise in the number of convictions in terror-related offences over the previous year, according to the country's Home Office statistics released on Thursday.

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

Lights of the Eiffel Tower were put out on Wednesday in solidarity with civilians in Aleppo where renewed fighting put at risk a truce deal to evacuate people and rebel fighters, according to Paris authorities.

As China relaxed its decades old one child policy this year, millions of women are being helped by hospitals to remove intrauterine devices implanted to prevent child birth.

Aleppo's fall to Syrian government forces is shaping up as the first major test of President-elect Donald Trump's desire to cooperate with Russia, whose military support has proven pivotal in Syria's civil war. The death and destruction in the city is onl...

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However, the Muslim Brotherhood denied any involvement with the explosion that took place during Sunday service at the church.

Bangladesh has been reeling under a wave of murders of secular, liberal activists and religious minorities.

English, 54, has been deputy to Key and finance minister since the National Party came to power in 2008.