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Berlin (dpa) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party scored a convincing victory over their centre-left rivals in a state poll Sunday seen as the first test ahead of national elections. The Christian Democrats (CDU) won 40.7 per cent of the vote to the Social Democrats’ (SPD) 29.6 per cent in the small south-western state […]

French President Francois Hollande arrived Sunday in Singapore, the first leg in the final foreign tour of his five-year term, and will go on to Malaysia and Indonesia. The tour ending Wednesday in Jakarta is dominated by economic and defence issues and is aimed mainly at strengthening ties with a region with high economic potential,

Photo taken on March 25, 2017 shows the scene at the accident site in Tumd Right Banner of Baotou city, North China’s Inner mongolia autonomous region. A total of 83 homes were damaged in a powerful explosion that ripped through an apartment building in north China, killing three and injuring another 25, local government said.

Bratislava (dpa) – Controversial former Slovakian politician Frantisek Gaulieder died Saturday in mysterious circumstances, local media reported. The 66-year-old was apparently run over by a train, leading media to speculate that he might have been murdered or that he could have taken his own life. Gaulieder was a key player in a political scandal in

Russian authorities detained hundreds of anti-corruption protesters and arrested the nation’s leading opposition figure Sunday, as the biggest demonstrations against the Kremlin since 2011 broke out in several cities around the nation. Police detained anti-graft crusader Alexei Navalny in central Moscow, where thousands took to the streets in a rally staged roughly a year before