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Bangkok: Thai police shot dead a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar on Monday during a dramatic mass escape of detainees from an immigration camp in southern...

Johannesburg: South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is not being investigated for espionage over his part in establishing a surveillance unit...

Wiang Pa Pao District, Chiang Rai, (Thailand): Fire swept through a dormitory at a school for girls from poor hill-tribe families in Thailand, killing at...

Almaty: Tajikistan's President Imomali Rakhmon will be able to run for an unlimited number of terms after a series of constitutional amendments were...

Kathmandu/Sydney: A 43-year-old Indian mountaineer has died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest, in the third fatality on the world's...

Beirut: Bomb blasts killed nearly 150 people and wounded at least 200 in Jableh and Tartous on Syria's Mediterranean coast on Monday in the...

Manila: Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte's vow to root out crime and drug abuse will get a boost from the country's first-time acting win...

Guwahati: Assam Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya on Sunday invited Bharatiya Janata Party, Asom Gana Parishad and Bodoland People's Front to...

New Delhi: As BJP reaped a rich electoral harvest in Assam after sewing up an alliance with regional parties, Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday...

Tehran: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday arrived in Iran on a two-day visit, which will see India and the Gulf nation working on enhancing economic...