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Manila: Japan has offered to send patrol ships to deal with a growing piracy threat in the southern Philippine waters bordering Indonesia and Malaysia, a...

Srinagar: Four army men, including a Major, and an equal number of militants were on Tuesday killed while 8 other security personnel and a civilian were...

Beijing: Fearing pollution, hundreds of residents in a northeastern Chinese city on Tuesday protested the building of an aluminium processing plant,...

New Delhi/Chennai: AIADMK chief V. K. Sasikala's hope of becoming chief minister of Tamil Nadu was on Tuesday dealt a body blow with the Supreme Court...

Seoul: South Korea's special prosecutor's office said on Tuesday it would again seek a warrant to arrest Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee, a suspect...

Jakarta: Supporters of the governor of Indonesia's capital are hoping their checkered shirts in red, white and blue will help galvanise the vote in a...

Geneva: North Korea said on Tuesday its missile launches were "self-defence measures", rejecting U.N. Security Council criticism of its weekend...

Taipei: At least 32 people were killed when a tour bus crashed on a highway near Taipei on Monday night, with Taiwanese television footage showing the bus...

Mumbai: Eman Ahmed, who weighs around 500kg and is the world's heaviest woman, has been under observation at the Saifee Hospital since her arrival here...

New Delhi: A strike led by drivers' unions in the Indian capital demanding better pay from Uber and Ola has paralysed the ride-hailing services that...