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Chengdu (China): When she was a child, Qin Lijuan's grandfather was the local Communist Party boss in the district where they lived in southwestern...

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the Yasukuni Shrine for war dead, seen in China and the two Koreas as a symbol of...

Tokyo: Haruta Saito, a young Japanese amputee who dreams of becoming a Paralympian, remembers strapping on a prosthetic "running blade" for the...

Nairobi: Somalia is in desperate need for donated blood to treat survivors of a truck bombing in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday that killed more than 300...

Kabul: Taliban suicide car bombers and gunmen attacked a provincial Afghan police headquarters on Tuesday, killing at least 33 people, including the police...

Geneva: The U.N. refugee agency urged Bangladesh on Tuesday to speed up vetting of up to 15,000 Rohingya refugees "stranded" near the border after...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia said on Tuesday it has received proposals from three companies offering to continue the search for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370,...

Valletta: The son of Malta's best-known investigative journalist said on Tuesday his mother was killed by a car bomb because of her work exposing...

Kabul: A Taliban suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked a provincial Afghan police headquarters on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 60,...