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Bangkok: A Thai military court accepted a case on Tuesday against eight people charged with ridiculing junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha on Facebook, extending...

Dhaka:More than 100 people fell ill in Bangladesh after inhaling gas that leaked from a fertilizer factory in the port town of Chittagong, officials said on...

Cairo: A fact-finding commission investigating corruption in Egypt's domestic wheat supplies has delivered its final report to parliament, a lawmaker...

Manila: More than 1,900 people, or about 36 per day, have been killed in a violent campaign against drugs in the Philippines since President Rodrigo Duterte...

Karachi: Pakistani paramilitary forces have sealed the headquarters of a powerful political party in the commercial hub of Karachi and detained five of its...

Islamabad: Pakistan will invest $8.5 million to expand a network of glacier monitoring stations tracking the pace of glacial melt in the Hindu Kush,...

Nairobi: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has urged South Sudan's leaders to "get the job done" by fully implementing a peace deal or face a...

Bucharest: Four people were injured in a fire and blast at Romania's Black Sea Petromidia crude refinery , deputy Interior Minister Raed Arafat said on...

Abuja: Nigeria's air force said it had killed some senior boko Haram militants and possibly fatally wounded their overall leader in a raid on...

Nairobi: United States Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday he and regional states were committed to giving momentum to the planned deployment of...