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By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin said on Thursday he plans to step down midway through his term after February's parliamentary election, telli...

KYIV, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Ukrainian aerial drones struck a Russian oil platform in the Caspian Sea for the first time on Thursday, halting production at the facility owned by Lukoil, according to an of...

By Chantha Lach and Thomas Suen SREI SNAM, Cambodia, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Bullets were flying as Cambodian casino worker Chay Rey and her family fled their home amid border clashes between Thai and Camb...

DUBAI, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Tehran called on the United Nations to intervene in what it called the "tightening of restrictions on Iran's diplomatic mission to the United Nations in New York", according ...

SOFIA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov handed in his government's resignation on Thursday following weeks of street protests over its economic policies and its perceived f...

By Joyce Lee and Heejin Kim SEOUL, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Two workers died and two were missing and feared buried at a library construction site in the South Korean city of Gwangju on Thursday, after an i...

By Alan Charlish and Pawel Florkiewicz WARSAW, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Poland has detained a Russian archaeologist whom Ukraine accuses of unauthorised excavation and plundering historical artefacts in Cri...

FRANKFURT, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Germany, France and Spain will try this week to break a deadlock over Europe's next-generation fighter jet programme, a project worth up to 100 billion euros ($117 billio...

DHAKA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Bangladesh will vote on February 12 to elect a new parliament, the country's Election Commission said on Thursday, its first national election since a deadly student-led upri...

By Mark Trevelyan Dec 11 (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday held a second meeting in 17 days with the Venezuelan ambassador to Russia, at a time of mounting pressure by ...