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Manila: The new Philippines environment minister on Tuesday said he wants to balance conservation and mining interests, signaling intent to settle a bitter...

Tokyo: India is looking to strengthen its military cooperation with Japan and is interested in sourcing defence technologies for domestic manufacture of...

Mumbai/New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare on Tuesday said he would sit on an agitation to demand the resignation of Arvind Kejriwal if the allegations...

Darwin (Australia): When the United States signed an agreement in 2011 to use Australia's tropical port of Darwin as a base for military exercises, it...

New Delhi: In an unprecedented order, the Supreme Court on Tuesday held controversial Calcutta High Court judge Justice C. S. Karnan guilty of contempt of...

Seoul: Liberal politician Moon Jae-in won South Korea's presidential election on Tuesday, exit polls showed, an expected victory that would end nearly a...

Jericho (N.Y.)/Beijing: Among the sprawling colonial homes and well-tended lawns on the north shore of New York's Long Island, there are signs that...

Jakarta: Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Tuesday urged all parties to respect the verdict of a court which jailed Jakarta's Christian governor,...

Madrid: Around 300 sub-Saharan African migrants stormed the six-metre razor-wire fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla early on Tuesday,...

Pattani (Thailand): Muslim militants fighting for a separate state in the south of predominantly Buddhist Thailand were suspected of carrying out a car-bomb...