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Yangon: Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi picked former UN chief Kofi Annan on Wednesday to lead a commission to stop human rights abuses in Rakhine State,...

Karachi:The imprisoned politician who is almost certain to be the next mayor of Pakistan's largest and richest city of Karachi will run the teeming...

Bangkok: Thailand's military government said on Wednesday there was no connection between two bombings overnight that killed one person in the southern...

Sydney/New Delhi:India is investigating the extent to which secrets about French Scorpene submarines being built in the country have been compromised, its...

Seoul: North Korea fired a submarine-launched missile on Wednesday that flew about 500km (311 miles) towards Japan, a show of improving technological...

Beijing: North Korea's firing of a submarine-launched missile on Wednesday could be seen as a "tit-for-tat move" in response to recent...

Istanbul: Turkey expects to swiftly eliminate the threat from IS after launching an operation with U.S.-led coalition forces to sweep militants out of the...

PARIS: When Nicolas Sarkozy went fishing for votes in the electoral waters of France's far right for a second presidential term in 2012 it ended in...

Kolkata: Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday launched Akashvani Maitree, a radio service for Bengali listeners aimed at providing a platform for...

New Delhi: As Home Minister Rajnath Singh will undertake a two-day visit to the Indian-administered-Kashmir on Wednesday, Congress on Tuesday made a strong...