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Vientiane: New Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte sought to defuse a row with the United States on Tuesday, voicing regret for comments on President...

Kabul: Afghan security forces sealed off the centre of Kabul on Tuesday as they battled gunmen who barricaded themselves inside the offices of an...

Seoul: The United Nations Security Council will discuss the latest missile launches by North Korea in a closed-door meeting on Tuesday morning at the...

HANGZHOU (China)/DAVAO CITY (Philippines): US President Barack Obama said on Monday he was considering whether or not to meet his Filipino counterpart,...

KABUL: A Taliban suicide attack near the defence ministry in Kabul killed at least 24 people on Monday, including a number of senior security officials, and...

Dhaka: At least four women terrorists of the outlawed militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB) were arrested on Monday in Bangladesh, weeks after similar...

Jakarta: Dozens of Indonesian men, suspected of being hired by an oil palm plantation company, threatened to kill environmental investigators checking on...

Yangon: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and former UN chief Kofi Annan on Monday oversaw the first meeting of a panel tasked with bringing peace to a region...

Manila: The Philippines will suspend more of the country's mines for violating environmental regulations after already halting operations at 10 sites,...

Manila: The body of 22-year-old pedicab driver Eric Sison lies in a coffin in a Manila slum with a chick pacing across his casket, placed there in keeping...