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Peshawar: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial government in Pakistan has started offering free of cost Chinese language courses for the youth in five technical institutions...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: At least 11 people were killed and 24 others rescued Sunday after the boat they were traveling in capsized off...

Bangkok: A United States aircraft carrier strike group has begun patrols in the South China Sea amid growing tension with China over control...

Abu Dhabi: The four-day International Defence Exhibition and Conference () kicked off Sunday in Abu Dhabi with the United Arab Emirates announcing 21...

Manila: The Philippine army will create a "battalion size" task force to help the government's anti-narcotics agency run after high-value targets in President...

Armed groups such as the Pakistani Taliban and others have often targeted shrines for not conforming to their strict, literalistic interpretation of Islam....

KABUL: Twenty-five people were killed by snowstorms and avalanches in northern Afghanistan yesterday, just days after more than 100 people died due to...

Miami: SpaceX yesterday blasted off its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the unmanned Dragon cargo ship, packed with food and supplies for the six...

Quito: Ecuadoreans were voting yesterday in a nail-biter presidential election where an ally of leftist President Rafael Correa hopes to clinch enough support...

Warning: if you believe Canada is a pretty, picture-postcard Islamophobia-free zone, then I recommend you stop reading this column. You’re about to be...

Yet more bad news for Obamacare last week: Molina Healthcare lost $110 million on the exchanges last year, and the CEO told investors,...

MOGADISHU, Somalia: Somalia's new president visited victims wounded by the Mogadishu car bomb that on Sunday killed 34. President Mohamed Abdulahi Mohamed offered...

There is a legend told through oral tradition in the sub-continent. There was a man who appeared before a great city, a wanderer...

AMMAN: Syrian rebel groups who have participated in peace talks said on Sunday that an upsurge in Syrian army shelling and bombing was...

Samsung Group’s Jay Y. Lee was taken back to a special prosecutor’s office for a second day following another night in police custody...

Kuala Lumpur: Investigators are looking for four North Korean men who flew out of Malaysia the same day Kim Jong Nam, the North...

Bangkok: Thousands of followers of Thailand's biggest Buddhist temple defied orders to leave its grounds yesterday to enable police to seek out their...