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India is to declare tea as national drink by April next year, the country`s top planner has said. "The drink ...

Nigerian police in northwest Kano State on Saturday said unidentified gunmen shot dead a private photographer during a ...

President Susilo Yudhoyono received a delegation from Chinese news agency Xinhua at his office here on Thursday. ...

NATO spokesman Oana Lungescu stressed on Monday that the coordinated Taliban attacks on Sunday in Afghanistan would do ...

At least four tribesmen were killed Sunday when a car bomb attack targeted a checkpoint of the tribal fighters who ...

Four warships from Russia`s Pacific Fleet, as well as its support vessels, warplanes, helicopters and naval infantry, ...

Suspected al-Qaida gunmen kidnapped a Yemeni government official in the southeastern province of Hadramout on Sunday ...

Afghan security forces backed by NATO-led troops have killed 47 Taliban militants and injured 31 others over the past ...

Four people were killed and 22 others injured after an explosion hit an oil company in Egypt`s Suez city, local ...

A Danish warship has apprehended a suspected pirate ship off Somalia`s coast, and released 12 hostages held on board, ...

Iran`s oil minister said Tuesday that his country has stopped oil exports to Greece, the semi- official Fars news ...

Syrian official news agency SANA said Monday`s shooting on the Lebanese-Syrian border that killed a cameraman of ...

The post-Taliban Afghanistan will launch the first-ever space satellite within six months, a local newspaper said on ...

At least 27 people have died in Haiti after a truck carrying numerous passengers turned over late Saturday about 70 ...

Cuban leader Raul Castro welcomed his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez as the latter arrived in Cuba midnight ...