NOTORIOUS torturer Gina Haspel was confirmed as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Thursday, following a battle in Congress over

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GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel will fly to the Russian resort of Sochi today for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin to discuss the Nord Strea

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IRAQ’S delayed final election results remain in dispute after hundreds of ethnic Turkmen and Arab demonstrators protested outside election offices

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate BS Yeddyurappa was sworn in as Karnataka state first minist

EUROPEAN UNION: EU member states meeting in the Bulgarian capital Sofia yesterday urged the US to stop threatening it with tariffs on steel and alu

BEIJING insisted it has no wish to see increased tensions with the US as two days of trade talks opened today, but is fully prepared to defend its