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Beijing: China's increase in military spending for 2018, the biggest rise in three years, was proportionate and low, and Beijing had not been goaded...

Colombo: Sri Lanka declared a nationwide state of emergency for 10 days on Tuesday to stop the spread of communal violence, a government spokesman said,...

Melbourne/Wellington: Aid workers struggled to reach remote areas of Papua New Guinea's rugged highlands on Tuesday as aftershocks rattled the region,...

Tokyo: A Japanese volcano which featured in a 1960s James Bond movie shot smoke and ash thousands of metres into the sky on Tuesday, prompting the...

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met senior South Korean government officials for the first time and said it is his "firm will to vigorously...

Yangon: Myanmar's "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims is continuing, a senior UN human rights official said on Tuesday, more than six...

Salisbury (England): A former Russian double agent convicted of treason in Moscow was critically ill in a British hospital on Tuesday after exposure to an...

Beirut:Turkish shelling and air strikes killed 13 people in the town of Jandiris in Syria's Afrin region on Monday, Kurdish militia said, while a war...

Beirut/Geneva: Aid convoys reached a crossing point into Syria's eastern Ghouta on Monday, a witness said, bringing the first relief to the besieged...

Istanbul: Turkish police detained four Iraqi nationals on Monday on suspicion of planning an attack on the US Embassy in Ankara, the state-run Anadolu...