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BANGKOK: Police in Thailand on Wednesday arrested a woman wanted in connection with a 2015 bombing in Bangkok that killed 20 people, 14...

Singapore: Driverless buses will appear on some roads in Singapore from 2022 as part of plans to improve mobility in the land-scarce city-state,...

Beijing: The foreign ministers of China and South Korea met on Wednesday in Beijing as the two nations seek to improve ties strained...

Lahore, Pakistan: A Pakistani court has ordered the release of one of the alleged masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai attacks which killed more...

THE HAGUE:  A U.N. tribunal on Wednesday convicted ex-Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic of genocide and crimes against humanity for massacres of...

Rome: Former "boss of bosses" Toto Riina, one of the most feared godfathers in the history of the Sicilian Mafia, was buried Wednesday...

Mosul, Iraq: Iraqi officials said they found another mass grave in the northern Sinjar region on Wednesday containing the bodies of dozens of...

BAGHDAD: At least 18 people were killed Tuesday when the Turkmen-majority Tuz Khurmatu district in Iraq’s Saladin province north of Baghdad was rocked...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Trading in human beings as witnessed recently in Libya is a "crime against humanity", the chairman of the African Union...

Tbilisi: Explosions and gunfire were heard in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Wednesday as armed counter-terrorist units raided an apartment block on the...

GAZA CITY, Palestine: Egyptian authorities Tuesday closed the Rafah border crossing with the blockaded Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Interior Ministry. The...

Beijing: Air China has suspended flights to North Korea, further limiting the secretive state's links with the outside world, in what the government...

BEIRUT: Lebanon's Saad al-Hariri said on Wednesday he would hold off presenting his resignation as prime minister in response to a request from...

Seoul, The North Korean soldier who dramatically defected through the demilitarised zone has been captivated by American crime dramas and sci-fi thrillers since...

Harare: Zimbabwe's former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa will return home on Wednesday, more than two weeks after fleeing the country following his ouster...

SEOUL: Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh from violence in Myanmar have been "drained" by the trauma they suffered...

Tbilisi: Explosions and gunfire were heard in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Wednesday as armed counter-terrorist units raided a multi-storey apartment bloc on...

Tokyo: A military aircraft with 11 people aboard has crashed into the Philippine Sea while en route to an aircraft carrier, the US...