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Hanoi: The United States announced an end to its embargo on sales of lethal arms to Vietnam on Monday, an historic step that draws a line under the two...

Bengaluru: India on Monday successfully launched the first technology demonstrator of indigenously made Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV), capable of launching...

Baghdad: Iraqi government forces fought IS militants near Falluja on Monday and bombarded central districts at the outset of an offensive to retake the...

Bangkok: Thai police shot dead a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar on Monday during a dramatic mass escape of detainees from an immigration camp in southern...

Johannesburg: South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is not being investigated for espionage over his part in establishing a surveillance unit...

Wiang Pa Pao District, Chiang Rai, (Thailand): Fire swept through a dormitory at a school for girls from poor hill-tribe families in Thailand, killing at...

Almaty: Tajikistan's President Imomali Rakhmon will be able to run for an unlimited number of terms after a series of constitutional amendments were...

Kathmandu/Sydney: A 43-year-old Indian mountaineer has died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest, in the third fatality on the world's...

Beirut: Bomb blasts killed nearly 150 people and wounded at least 200 in Jableh and Tartous on Syria's Mediterranean coast on Monday in the...

Manila: Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte's vow to root out crime and drug abuse will get a boost from the country's first-time acting win...