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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...

Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump ousted recently hired White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci on Monday over an obscene tirade, sources...

Moscow: The Kremlin has ordered the United States to cut about 60 per cent of its diplomatic staff in Russia but many of those let go will be Russian...