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Yangon: Two Reuters journalists who have been detained in Myanmar for the past two weeks were remanded in custody for a further two weeks on Wednesday as a...

Seoul: South Korean prosecutors sought a 12-year jail term on Wednesday for Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee, in a corruption case that led to...

Amman: Syria's armed forces said insurgents downed a military jet in northern Hama province on Tuesday, killing the pilot. Militant group Tahrir Al Sham...

Seoul: North Korea is preparing to launch a satellite, a Seoul newspaper said on Tuesday, as outside observers warn that the nuclear-armed regime's...

Lima: Peru's ailing ex-president Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday asked the public for forgiveness, two days after receiving a controversial pardon from the...

Davao: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed on Tuesday to get to the truth about a blaze in his home city that killed 37 call centre workers. He said...

Istanbul/Khartoum: Turkey will rebuild a ruined port city on Sudan's Red Sea coast and construct a naval dock to maintain civilian and military vessels,...

Yangon: Foreign and local journalists jailed for flying a drone near Myanmar's parliament could be released from prison in early January after police...

New Delhi: India is set to overtake the United Kingdom and France to become the world's fifth largest economy next year, a report said...

New Delhi: India denounced Pakistan on Tuesday for its handling of the visit of the wife and mother of an Indian man on death row, saying they were harassed...