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Student Emre Ali Ferli has known no leader other than Recep Tayyip Erdogan. That’s enough to make the 18-year-old back the Turkish president’s main rival when he votes for the first time on May 14. “I am tired of getting up every day…

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake rattled residents on islands west of Indonesia’s Sumatra on Tuesday, forcing them to flee to higher ground before an hours-long tsunami warning was lifted. The epicentre of the quake, which struck at 3 am…

MUMBAI:  At least eleven people died on Sunday after suffering from sunstroke at an event attended by India's home minister on the outskirts of Mumbai, the chief minister of Maharashtra state said. Hundreds of thousands of people…

US President Joe Biden said on Friday he has decided to run for a second term and would formally announce his re-election campaign “relatively soon.” “We’ll announce it relatively soon. But the trip here just reinforced my sense of…

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden did everything on Monday to look and sound like someone running for re-election — but again insisted he has no official announcement to make. The 80-year-old Democrat has delayed an expected campaign…

GAZA/JERUSALEM: Israeli police clashed with Palestinians at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque a second time on Wednesday, witnesses said, hours after the arrest and removal of more than 350 people in a police raid at the compound and despite a US …

DUBAI/ BEIJING: The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia met in Beijing for the first formal meeting of their most senior diplomats in more than seven years, CCTV news reported on Thursday, after a China-brokered deal to restore ties…

BOAO: Dismissing the western allegations about China’s “debt-trap diplomacy”, former World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has said that the claims about Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) tricking nations into debt made no sense. He made the…

India is discussing the mysterious disappearance and hiding of the wanted Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh as authorities expand the search of their circle, BBC News reported. According to journalists in India, the Sikh activist was seen in…

JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paused his signature plan to overhaul Israel's judiciary after a day of nationwide turmoil when workers joined a general strike against the proposal and hundreds of thousands of protesters took…