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Seoul: South Korea's presidential office on Wednesday named a new prime minister and finance minister, the highest-level shake-up since President Park...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte chided the United States on Wednesday for halting the planned sale of 26,000 rifles to his country, calling...

Quetta: Pakistani firefighters were battling on Wednesday to douse a fire still raging more than a day after a series of explosions on a decommissioned oil...

Nongsa (Indonesia): A speedboat carrying 101 people, mostly migrant workers, struck a reef and sank off an Indonesian island on Wednesday, killing 18...

Hanoi: A fire that broke out at a karaoke lounge in Vietnam's capital killed at least 13 people, the government said on Wednesday, in a rare accident of...

Peshawar: A Pakistani court on Wednesday denied bail to Sharbat Gula, who was arrested for illegally living in Pakistan and is best known as the green-eyed...

Tokyo: Japan will provide aid worth 800 billion yen ($7.73 billion) to Myanmar over five years to support its peace-building and development efforts, Prime...

Beijing: An explosion at a coal mine in China has killed 33 people, media reported on Wednesday after rescuers recovered the bodies of 15 miners missing...

Des Moines (Iowa): Two Iowa police officers were shot and killed Wednesday while sitting in their patrol cars in what police called unprovoked ambushes, and...

Hong Kong: British investment banker Rurik Jutting acted rationally before and after he killed two Indonesian women in his luxury Hong Kong apartment and...