New Delhi: Indian Embassy in Cairo has made arrangements to airlift Indian nationals in Egypt wanting to return home in the wake of violent agitation against the Hosni Mubarak regime.

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Cairo, Egypt: Thousands of prisoners escaped from the Wadi Natrun facility, north of Cairo, a security official said on Sunday, as anti-government riots entered their sixth day.

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London: Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's Islamist movement Ennahda, boarded a plane on Sunday to return home from London after 22 years in exile, his daughter travelling with him told AFP.

Gaza city: The Rafah crossing between southern Gaza and Egypt was closed on Sunday, a Palestinian official told AFP, saying Egyptian officials had left the border following the spiralling political un

New Delhi: Holding aloft banners and shouting slogans against rising levels of corruption in the country, thousands of people from all age groups stepped out of their homes Sunday to demand an effecti

New Delhi: India has sent an Air India's plane to Egypt to evacuate Indian citizens from the country, the airline said on Sunday.

An aircraft left India at 1710 local time (1040 GMT) bound for Cairo,

Nov. 11: They say politics and sports do not mix but that’s only on paper. At least in Hyderabad, where the separate statehood for Telangana sentiment is growing by the day and is making its foray int

An Iranian woman whose sentence of execution by stoning for adultery provoked a worldwide outcry will instead be hanged for murder, a human rights group said.

"The authorities in Tehran have given th

Hyderabad: Tension, large scale protests, road blockades and attacks on the houses of ministers and legislators in Telangana marred the 54th Andhra Pradesh formation day celebrations on Monday.

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Paris: Protests by French labour unions against President Nocolas Sarkozy's pension overhaul plan entered its second week Wednesday, thwarting fuel and other supplies and disrupting normal life across