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Washington: North Korea's latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) has shown that Pyongyang now may be able to reach most of the...

Bangkok: The number of North Koreans slipping illegally into Thailand has surged in recent months, according to immigration bureau officials, as tensions...

Beijing: China loves peace but will never compromise on defending its sovereignty, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday while marking 90 years since the...

Kabul: A total of 2,531 Afghan security forces were killed and 4,238 wounded in the first four months of the year, according to figures released in a report...

Wellington: New Zealand's opposition Labour party appointed Jacinda Ardern as its new leader on Tuesday, less than two months before a general election,...

Manila: The Philippines has registered the fastest-growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Asia-Pacific in the past six years with a 140-per cent increase in the...

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah has taken a serious view of party members not attending the Rajya Sabha despite a whip and will...

Islamabad/Lahore: Politics is a family business in Pakistan and ousted leader Nawaz Sharif has looked no further than his brother Shahbaz for a successor,...

Bangkok: Thailand's former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra delivered a tearful closing statement to a Bangkok court on Tuesday, saying she did not...

Caracas: Venezuelan security officials seized two opposition leaders from their homes in overnight raids, their families said on Tuesday, after they urged...