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Australia’s ruling conservative coalition is set to secure a governing majority in its shock election victory over the centre-left Labor Party, the national broadcaster ABC projected Monday. Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Liberal-National coalition will hold at...

Bangladesh today expressed its deep concern over several attacks targeting oil establishment in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. “Bangladesh has observed with deep concern the secret drone attacks on the oil pumping stations in Saudi Arabian...

Saudi Arabia said Sunday that the kingdom’s massive oil installations are well protected a few days after a drone attack claimed by Yemeni rebels on a key oil pipeline. “We have strong (oil) industry security… everybody...

Voting ended Sunday in the seventh and final round of India’s marathon election to decide whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi gets a second term. The last polling booths closed at 1230 GMT, the election commission said....

Ottawa plans to proceed “full steam ahead” on ratification of a free trade agreement with the US and Mexico, Canada’s foreign affairs minister said Saturday, after the neighbors scrapped reciprocal tariffs on steel and aluminum imports....

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said Turkey and Russia would jointly produce S-500 defense systems after Ankara’s controversial purchase of the S-400 missile defense system from Moscow. Turkey’s push to buy the S-400s has...

Final results are being counted in Australia where Prime Minister Scott Morrison hopes his victory in Saturday’s election will give him a majority government. His conservative coalition has defied the polls and now needs to win...

Boeing Co has made corrections to simulator software that mimics the flying experience of its 737 MAX jets, which were involved in two fatal crashes, and the company has provided additional information to device operators, a...

Russia on Thursday presented a draft resolution to the Security Council accusing the UN’s chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW, of politicization just before a new probe begins of chemical attacks in Syria. The draft text, seen...

I M Pei, the architect behind buildings including the glass pyramid outside the Louvre in Paris, has died aged 102. Tributes have been pouring in, remembering him for a lifetime of designing iconic structures worldwide. Pei’s...