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New Western Syria strikes would spark 'chaos': Putin tells Rouhani 15 Apr 2018 - 05:16 pm
File photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani attending a signing ceremony in Tehran (Reuters / Alexei Druzhinin / Sputnik Kremlin)
Power outage hits Kabul after militants attack pylon 15 Apr 2018 - 01:33 pm
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Japan foreign min says Beijing, Tokyo should co-operate more to denuclearise N. Korea 15 Apr 2018 - 12:56 pm
Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono (R) and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi (L) arrive for their meeting in Tokyo on April 15, 2018. / AFP / POOL / Behrouz MEHRI
Britain to study options if Syria's Assad uses chemical weapons again -foreign minister 15 Apr 2018 - 12:24 pm
 British Ambassador to the UN Karen Pierce (L) and US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley (C) vote during a UN Security Council meeting, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, on April 14, 2018. / AFP / HECTOR RETAMAL
Air China flight diverted by pen threat 15 Apr 2018 - 12:23 pm
Flights of Air China are parked on the tarmac of Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, March 28, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Arrest in India rape case as outrage mounts over assaults 15 Apr 2018 - 11:36 am
File photo of Indian Congress workers participate in a candle light procession as they shout slogans against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a protest against rape incidents, in Allahabad, April 13, 2018. / AFP / SANJAY KANOJIA
Trump, allies praise Syria strikes as Moscow seethes 15 Apr 2018 - 11:21 am
US President Donald Trump arrives to address the nation on the situation in Syria April 13, 2018 at the White House in Washington, DC. Trump said strikes on Syria are under way. AFP / Mandel Ngan
Chemical inspectors to begin work in Syria's Douma 15 Apr 2018 - 11:21 am
Peninsula
Scepticism as Myanmar announces repatriation of first Rohingya family 15 Apr 2018 - 09:56 am
This handout photograph released by Myanmar News Agency on April 15, 2018 and taken April 14, 2018, Myanmar immigration official hands over identification document to an unidentified Rohingya woman belonging to the five member Rohingya family at Taungpyol
Guatemala votes on sending Belize border dispute to international court 15 Apr 2018 - 09:10 am
A woman and her two children walk past a polling station ahead of a referendum on a border dispute with Belize in Guatemala City on April 14, 2018. AFP / JOHAN ORDONEZ
Afghans register to vote in long-delayed elections amid violence 15 Apr 2018 - 09:03 am
This photo taken on April 14, 2018 shows an Afghan employee of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) registering a resident at a voter registration center for the upcoming parliamentary and district council elections in Kabul. AFP / HOSHANG HASHIMI
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Poonam Yadav attacked in Varanasi 14 Apr 2018 - 11:03 pm
Poonam Yadav won the gold medal in women’s 69kg weightlifting at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. (Reuters)
Kathua rape-murder: Resignation of Kashmir ministers accepted 14 Apr 2018 - 10:45 pm
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti (Reuters file photo)
Gaza flare-up driven by deep misery in strip 14 Apr 2018 - 10:37 pm
A picture taken outside the Najjar hospital in rafah shows a Palestinian paramedic pushing a blood stained stretcher which carried the body of a man who died in an explosion east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 14, 2018.  AFP / Said Khatib
Unrest in Jammu Kashmir over rape, murder of minor girl 14 Apr 2018 - 09:31 pm
People hold candles and placards during a vigil, organised by the members of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association, to show solidarity with the victim and demand a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the rape and murder of an eight
Major anti-Orban demo in Hungary 14 Apr 2018 - 09:24 pm
People protest against the policies of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government in last weekend's general election in Budapest, Hungary on April 14, 2018. AFP / Attila Kisbenedek
Russia's Lavrov says Skripals may have been poisoned by substance Russia never made 14 Apr 2018 - 09:21 pm
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (AFP)
Massive Japan manhunt for 'model' convict who fled open jail 14 Apr 2018 - 08:47 pm
Tatsuma Hirao, 27, who was serving time for multiple thefts, had been working at a shipbuilding yard at the Matsuyama prison in the southwestern city of Imabari.