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Canada's Conservative government came under fire on Thursday after it emerged that the family of a Syrian toddler whose body washed up on a Turkish beach had wanted to emigrate to Canada, rattling Prime Minister Stephen Harper's re-election bid

China's "total victory" over Japanese invasion "restored China's status as a major country in the world", Xi said.

A key Taliban commander, Qari Salahudin Ayubi, in Afghanistan has been arrested, intelligence agency National Directorate for Security (NDS) said on Wednesday.

The South African city of Durban will host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, becoming the first African city to stage the quadrennial multi-sports event.

Hillary Clinton may not be in legal trouble over the use of a private email server for official correspondence, but release of some 7,000 new emails with information redacted from 150 of them added to her political headaches.

Tokyo, on Monday, said it has complained to the United Nations over Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's plan to attend a huge military parade in Beijing to mark the 70th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II.

Forsyth told of how he had assisted Britain's overseas spying agency in the Nigerian region of Biafra, East Germany, Rhodesia and South Africa.

Greece geared up for its fifth election in six years with a poll today showing leftist leader Alexis Tsipras in the lead for re-election

Twelve people have been arrested in China in connection with the massive twin blasts in Tianjin port city which killed 139 people.

The US expects to accept between 5,000 and 8,000 Syrian refugees in 2016, officials have said.

Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's son offered USD 1,96,449 reward for the arrest of those behind the blast in the Brahma temple on Saturday, as authorities failed to make any arrests in the country's worst attack that killed 20 people.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman said the terrorists demolished the Syriac Catholic monastery "on the pretext that it was used for worshipping others than God"

The new party, called Popular Unity, will be led by former energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, 63, according to the news website left.gr.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday on being sworn-in as Sri Lanka's Prime Minister.

Without naming India, a Pakistani Minister said the same enemy was behind terrorism who talks of friendship on one hand.