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Manila: The Philippines army defended its operations on Monday after 18 soldiers were killed and more than 50 wounded in a jungle ambush by militants in the...

Manila: The Philippines must make sure casinos are covered by anti-money laundering legislation, the World Bank said on Monday, joining calls for the...

Seoul/Beijing: Two senior North Korean officials, including an army colonel specialising in espionage against the South, defected to South Korea last year,...

Jalalabad (Afghanistan): A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed at least 12 army recruits on a bus in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, hours...

Manila: A tough-talking mayor in the southern Philippines, who has vowed to end corruption and crime, has topped the latest opinion poll and become the new...

Hiroshima(Japan): US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday called his visit to a memorial to victims of the 1945 US nuclear attack on Hiroshima...

Manila: Philippine soldiers battled a group of about 120 rebels linked to IS in a ten-hour assault on a southern island that killed 23 people, an army...

Kabul: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck South Asia on Sunday, shaking buildings in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, witnesses and the US...

Hiroshima(Japan): In a city obliterated by a US atom bomb more than 70 years ago, Japan kicked off a gathering of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven...

Bangkok: Thai police have stepped up security after two ethnic Uighur men from China linked to "foreign terror groups" visited a holiday island, a...