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Pigeons take shelter after snowfall. (Photo: AP)

US New England: Winter storm claims power lines

Recent winter storm warnings and advisories issued for areas stretching from northern New York through Maine were lifted...

31 Dec 2016 10:07 AM IST

Mohammad Ramzan, right, reacts while talking to his young bride Saima in Jampur, Pakistan. (Photo: AP)

Pakistan: Father marries off daughter, 13, to disabled man

Wazir Ahmed's first wife, Saima's mother, had given him only daughters, and he hoped his second wife would give him a...

31 Dec 2016 9:16 AM IST

Francoise Amiridis, the wife of Greeces Ambassador to Brazil Kyriakos Amiridis, arrives at a police station to be interrogated in connection with her husbands disappearance. (Photo: AP)

Greek ambassador to Brazil murdered by wife's cop lover: police

Amiridis's charred body was found Thursday in Rio in his burned-out rental car, a day after his wife declared him...

31 Dec 2016 9:10 AM IST

United Nations Security Council. (Photo: AP/File)

UN Security Council to vote Saturday on Syria cease-fire

Russia and Turkey, who brokered the agreement, circulated the text and the draft resolution to Security Council members...

31 Dec 2016 7:49 AM IST

Noora Arkavazi and her husband Bobi Dodevski at their home in Kumanovo, Macedonia. (Photo: AFP)

A cop and a refugee write Love Story, 2016

Mr Bobi recalls the rainy day he first saw Ms Noora in no man's land between the two Balkan countries

31 Dec 2016 2:34 AM IST

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Erdogan clears first hurdle to be the iron man'

Constitutional commission clears plans for executive presidential system, long sought by Erdogan and Turkey's ruling AK...

31 Dec 2016 2:30 AM IST

A file photo of Britains Prime Minister Theresa May. Her government has criticised the US for describing the Israeli government as the most right wing in Israeli history.

May edges' towards Trump, slams Kerry over Israel jab

Ms May's spokesman said that Israel had coped for too long with the threat of terrorism.

31 Dec 2016 2:13 AM IST

Ami Bera and R. Krishnamoorthi

Desis to celebrate their famous five

The two Indian Americans nominated in the incoming Trump administration including Nikki Haley.

31 Dec 2016 2:07 AM IST

US President-elect Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Dovish' Donald Trump faces GOP hawks on hacking

Republican stalwarts like McCain align with Obama's retaliatory action against Russia .

31 Dec 2016 2:00 AM IST

Captain Niloofar Rahmani, 25, has requested asylum in U.S. after allegedly receiving death threats. (Photo: AFP)

Afghan activists ask Obama to ground pilot's asylum plea

Rahmani has requested asylum in the US after allegedly receiving death threats from hardline insurgents.

31 Dec 2016 1:52 AM IST

Slain Afghan Taliban supreme Mullah Mansour.

Pakistan gave national ID card to slain Mullah Mansour: Interior...

Khan, however, blamed the past government of overtly issuing ID cards and passports to foreigners.

30 Dec 2016 8:12 PM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo: AP)

Putin says Russia will not expel US diplomats

Putin said however that Moscow reserved the right to retaliate after Washington's decision to expel 35 diplomats.

30 Dec 2016 7:16 PM IST