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Bangkok: Thai police have stepped up security after two ethnic Uighur men from China linked to "foreign terror groups" visited a holiday island, a...

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a successful test of a new engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), state media said on...

Kabul: US Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Saturday to show support for the government and to try to defuse a...

Dikili (Turkey): Two ferries carrying more than 120 migrants returned to Turkey from the Greek island of Lesbos on Friday, in the second round of arrivals...

Baku: Azerbaijan and Armenian-backed separatists said on Friday they had struck a temporary deal to allow each side to safely search for the bodies of their...

London: David Cameron had hoped to focus on campaigning to keep Britain in the EU before a referendum in June, but questions about his wealth, government...

Brussels: Mohamed Abrini, wanted over November's IS attacks in Paris, has been arrested in Brussels, Belgium's public broadcasters said on Friday,...

Yangon: The new government of Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi released scores of jailed activists on Friday, just over a week after assuming...

Dubai: A group affiliated with Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the killing of a liberal Bangladeshi blogger this week, the SITE monitoring service...

Hong Kong: A court in southern China on Friday jailed four activists who had publicly supported Hong Kong's pro-democracy Occupy Central movement and...