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Beijing: China appreciates North Korea's "important efforts" to ease tension on the Korean peninsula, senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told the...

Singapore: Myanmar's panel of international advisers on Rohingya issues said on Tuesday that the coming monsoon season could bring "enormous...

Beirut/Amman: Syrian rebels in a besieged area northeast of Damascus have been told they must accept state rule or leave, a rebel group said on Tuesday, as...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late on Tuesday he was cancelling an agreement with the UN refugee agency to relocate...

New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday ordered the withdrawal of rules punishing journalists held to be responsible for distributing...

Kunduz: Villagers in the Afghan province of Kunduz said on Tuesday they had buried dozens of victims of a government air strike in a Taliban-controlled...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe faces a no-confidence motion on Wednesday that could go down to the wire and lead to political...

Islamabad: The United States placed Pakistan's Milli Muslim League political party on its list of foreign terrorist organisations on Monday, linking it...

Gaza Border: Several thousand Palestinians remained in tent camps along the Gaza border on Monday, continuing their protest for a right of return for...

Johannesburg: Anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, wife to Nelson Mandela during his decades of imprisonment, died on Monday, a family...