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SYDNEY: Many of the 410 asylum seekers held on a tiny Pacific Island are being driven to attempt suicide to escape the prison-like...

Moscow: An unidentified man on Monday blew himself up at the state-owned TV centre in Abkhazia, a tiny Russian-backed breakaway region of Georgia,...

BAGHDAD: A suicide driver detonated a car packed with explosives at a security check-point south of Baghdad on Monday, killing ten people and...

Bangkok: A 96-year-old former general has become temporary regent after Thailand's Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, in a surprise move, delayed his own proclamation...

Beijing: Even as US presidential candidate Donald Trump aggressively condemned Beijing, his hotel firm pursued a lucrative business deal with a giant state-owned...

Moscow: A notorious warlord has been killed in a bombing in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, separatist officials said. The separatist Donetsk News...

Sydney: A powerful earthquake measuring 6.9 magnitude struck off the coast of New Britain island in Papua New Guinea on Monday, the US...

ANKARA: Around half of some 3,000 Iraqi forces trained by Turkey at the Bashiqa camp in northern Iraq are taking part in the...

Beijing: A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck China's northwestern province of Qinghai on Monday, the US Geological Survey reported, in an area frequently plagued...

Yangon: Searchers have recovered 25 bodies from a ferry that sank in central Myanmar and expect to find scores more corpses as workers...

LUXEMBOURG: European Union foreign ministers are debating whether to extend sanctions against the Syrian regime as political efforts to secure a cease-fire falter....

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump's top supporters are racing to explain that what Trump said or tweeted isn't what he meant — especially on his...

Tokyo: An anti-nuclear candidate pulled off a surprise victory in a local Japanese election at the weekend, hurting Tokyo's already struggling bid to...

Beirut: Air strikes killed at least 12 civilians in Syria's Aleppo on Monday, a monitor said, bringing to 45 the death toll from...

LONDON: Britain might continue to pay billions of pounds into the European Union's budget after Brexit to maintain single-market access for the City...

Chandigarh: It is hailed as India's granary, but the northwestern state of Punjab faces a drastic decline in agricultural output unless it halts...

A powerful earthquake measuring 6.9 magnitude struck off the coast of New Britain island in Papua New Guinea on Monday, the U.S. Geological...

YANGON: A ferry sank in a river in northwestern Myanmar, killing at least 14 people with scores missing, a rescue official said on...