China’s Xi pledges to build “modern socialist country”
Chinese President Xi Jinping opened a critical Communist Party Congress on Wednesday with a pledge to build a “modern socialist country” that will never copy...
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Taliban attacks kill at least 69 across Afghanistan
Taliban militants struck government targets in many provinces of Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 69 people, including a senior police commander, and wounding scores...
EU vows to save Iran deal, fears for North Korea mediation
The European Union vowed on Monday to defend a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers and urged US lawmakers not to reimpose sanctions...
Rescued Canadian-U.S. couple reunited with family
A U.S.-Canadian couple freed in Pakistan this week, nearly five years after being abducted in Afghanistan, reunited with the husband’s family on Saturday, the Associated...
Pakistan rescues family from ‘terrorist custody’
The Pakistani military rescued a kidnapped US-Canadian couple and their three children after receiving intelligence from the United States, Pakistan said on Thursday, nearly five...
Floods, landslides in Vietnam kill 37 people, thousands evacuated
Floods caused by a tropical depression in Vietnam killed 37 people, one of the highest death tolls recorded in the country from flooding, the disaster...
N.Korea says Trump has ‘lit the wick of war’
US President Donald Trump has “lit the wick of war” with North Korea, Russia’s Tass news agency quoted North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho...
India’s top court rules sex with an underage wife is rape
India’s top court on Wednesday ruled that a man is committing rape if he engages in sexual intercourse with his wife who is aged between...
US bombs dropped in Afghanistan at highest since 2010
American warplanes in Afghanistan are dropping bombs in numbers not seen since the height of the US troop surge in 2010, after President Donald Trump...
US flies bombers over Korea as Trump discusses options
The US military flew two strategic bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force late on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump met top defence...
Secrets of famously pungent durian fruit revealed
By Will Dunham Scientists have answered one of nature’s most pungent questions: what gives the world’s smelliest fruit its distinctive aroma. Scientists in Singapore said on Monday...
Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar in new surge
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar fled to Bangladesh on Monday in a new surge of refugees driven by fears of starvation and violence the...
Rohingya refugee boat capsizes on way to Bangladesh, 12 dead
A boat carrying Rohingya Muslim refugees to Bangladesh capsized and at least 12 people, most of them children, drowned, police said on Monday, the latest...
UN fears ‘further exodus’ of Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar
The United Nations braced on Friday for a possible “further exodus” of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into Bangladesh six weeks after the world’s fastest-developing refugee emergency...
City of Oxford strips Suu Kyi of human rights award
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been stripped of a human rights award by the City of Oxford, where she was an undergraduate, as British...
Aid groups seek $434m for Rohingya crisis for next six months
Humanitarian organisations helping Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh said on Wednesday they need $434m over the next six months to help up to 1.2 million people, most...
Four killed in airport security camp attack in Kashmir (Update)
Indian police on Tuesday killed three suspected militants in army uniforms after they infiltrated a security camp beside the main airport in the disputed region...
MH370 report finds ‘initially similar’ route on flight simulator
The captain of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft that vanished somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean with 239 people on board had flown a route on...
Women plead not guilty to killing N. Korea leader’s half-brother
Two women accused of assassinating the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with a banned nerve agent pleaded not guilty at the start...
Egypt’s Hasm militants claim attack targeting Myanmar embassy
Egyptian militant group Hasm claimed responsibility on Sunday for a small explosion at Myanmar’s embassy in Cairo, saying it was in retaliation for that country’s...
