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Beijing/Hong Kong: China's parliament on Wednesday said part of a high-speed railway station being built in Hong Kong would be regarded as mainland...

Islamabad/Singapore: General Electric's flagship gas turbines ran into problems in Pakistan earlier this year, leading to delays and lengthy outages at...

Los Angeles: A Tokyo-bound jet returned to Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday because the crew learned four hours into the flight that a passenger...

Yangon: Two Reuters journalists who have been detained in Myanmar for the past two weeks were remanded in custody for a further two weeks on Wednesday as a...

Seoul: South Korean prosecutors sought a 12-year jail term on Wednesday for Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee, in a corruption case that led to...

Amman: Syria's armed forces said insurgents downed a military jet in northern Hama province on Tuesday, killing the pilot. Militant group Tahrir Al Sham...

Seoul: North Korea is preparing to launch a satellite, a Seoul newspaper said on Tuesday, as outside observers warn that the nuclear-armed regime's...

Lima: Peru's ailing ex-president Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday asked the public for forgiveness, two days after receiving a controversial pardon from the...

Davao: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed on Tuesday to get to the truth about a blaze in his home city that killed 37 call centre workers. He said...

Istanbul/Khartoum: Turkey will rebuild a ruined port city on Sudan's Red Sea coast and construct a naval dock to maintain civilian and military vessels,...