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Iran’s state television declared incumbent President Hassan Rouhani the winner of the country’s presidential election on Saturday, giving the 68-year-old cleric a second four-year term to see out his agenda calling for greater freedoms and outreach to the wider world. State TV offered its congratulations in a brief statement Saturday, …

TEHRAN  – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani won a second term in Friday’s presidential election by securing an absolute majority of the votes.   With the votes from 99.7% of ballot boxes in the nationwide presidential election counted, Rouhani emerged victorious and secured a second term by winning 57 percent of …

Sharif to attend ‘Arab Nato’ in Riyadh   Islamabad, May 20 Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will attend the first ever Arab-Islamic-American Summit being held in Riyadh on Sunday, a media report said on Saturday. The “Arab Nato” summit — being held to develop a security partnership against a growing …

New York: A 58-year-old Indian man, who was in the US customs’ custody for entering the country illegally, has died after being hospitalised for shortness of breath. Atul Kumar Babubhai Patel was taken in custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Atlanta City Detention Centre for two days. …

US president Donald Trump has condemned an investigation into possible collusion between his 2016 election campaign and Russia as the “greatest witch hunt” in the US history. “This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history,” he tweeted on Thursday. The tweet came after the US Justice Department appointed …

The secretary general of the NATO has ruled out the possibility that the Western military alliance would help combat missions against Daesh if it joins the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Takfiri terrorist group in Iraq and Syria. Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that NATO members were discussing whether the organization …