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Tokyo: Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Taro Kono said on Sunday that Tokyo and Beijing needed to work more closely together to denuclearise North Korea,...

Beijing: An Air China flight bound for Beijing made an unscheduled landing in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou on Sunday after a passenger threatened a...

Washington/Beirut: Western powers said on Saturday their missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria's chemical weapons programme, but the restrained...

Budapest: Thousands of Hungarians protested in Budapest on Saturday against what organisers said was an unfair election system that gave Prime Minister...

United Nations: The United Nations Security Council failed to adopted a Russian-drafted resolution on Saturday that would have condemned "the...

Soweto (South Africa): South Africa laid to rest anti-apartheid heroine Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Saturday, after 40,000 people from across the political...

Damascus: Damascus residents were woken before dawn on Saturday by a series of explosions resounding across the city, very loud even for people used to the...

Oklahoma City/Tulsa (US): High school physics teacher Craig Hoxie filed to run for Oklahoma's House of Representatives on Friday, a day after the end of...

Paris: When Emmanuel Macron called Vladimir Putin on Friday, the day before launching his first major military operation with strikes on Syria, the French...