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GIBRALTAR– The Iranian oil tanker at the centre of a diplomatic dispute has departed from Gibraltar after the British overseas territory rejected a US demand to seize the vessel. According to the monitoring website Marine Traffic, the supertan...
MUMBAI–Thirteen people died and 20 others were injured when a container trailer collided with a state transport bus at Nimgul in India's western state of Maharashtra, 391 km from Mumbai on 10:30 p.m. local time Sunday night, police official s...
KUALALUMPUR–A Malaysian court postponed the hearings for corruption charges on former Prime Minister Najib Razak over state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) on Monday. The presiding judge made the decision after hearing from...
BANGKOK– A van collision in eastern Thailand killed 11 and injured four on Sunday, local media reported. The chartered van was carrying Laotian workers from Sa Kaeo Province for visa renewal at the Chanthaburi immigration checkpoint. Police sa...
Thimphu,Bhutan–Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is on a two-day official visit to Bhutan, met Dr Pema Gyamtsho, Leader of the Opposition of Bhutan's National Assembly, on Sunday. "PM @narendramodi met with Dr Pema Gyamtsho, Leader of ...
NEW DELHI–Delivering his sixth Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday endorsed the idea of 'One Nation, One Election' while emphasising the need for democratic discussions on th...
MOSCOW–A Russian Airbus with more than 230 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing in a corn field outside Moscow on Thursday after hitting a flock of seagulls, officials said. There were no immediate reports of serious injurie...
TOKYO– An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 struck Japan's northern Aomori Prefecture, the weather agency said on Thursday, although no tsunami warning has been issued. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the t...
MUZAFFRABAD– Prime Minister Imran Khan travelled to Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday where he was expected to issue a fresh challenge to India over its recent power-play which has sent tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours soaring. His v...
Kerala– Eighty-eight people have died across 14 districts of flood-battered Kerala while 40 are missing, authorities said on Tuesday. As per official data recorded till 9 am today, 34 people have sustained injuries in the natural calamity. Tor...
BAGHDAD–A total of ten Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Monday in an airstrike by U.S.-led coalition aircraft and clashes with Iraqi security forces in western Iraq, the Iraqi military said. The Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS)...
BEIJING–Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Chinese mainland expanded 7.3 percent year on year to 533.14 billion yuan in the January-July period, the Ministry of Commerce announced Tuesday. In U.S. dollar terms, FDI inflow grew 3.6 percen...
SYDNEY–Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison admitted he "got really angry" after learning that only 12 percent of the country's plastic materials actually get recycled. Morrison announced a 20 million Australian dollar (13.5 ...
MYANMAR– Myanmar troops deployed to flood-hit parts of the country on Sunday to help with relief efforts after the death toll from a deadly landslide jumped to 48. Every year monsoon rains hammer Myanmar and other countries across Southea...
HAVANA– Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Saturday expressed support to Venezuela after the imposition of new U.S. economic sanctions. "The Venezuelan people's dignity and the strength of the Bolivarian Revolution can't be...
NEW YORK– The FBI and the Justice Department's inspector general's office will investigate how Jeffrey Epstein died in an apparent suicide Saturday, while the probe into sexual abuse allegations against the well-connected financier remain...
DAR ES SALAAM–Tanzanian President John Magufuli has declared three days of national mourning following an oil tanker explosion that killed over 60 people and injured 70 others in Morogoro on Saturday, said a statement released early Sunday. Th...
MEXICO CITY–The Mexican Foreign Ministry said Thursday that 122 Mexicans were detained in coordinated raids at several food processing plants in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard earlier said 107 Mexicans h...
NEW DELHI–Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay a state visit to Bhutan on Aug. 17-18, at the invitation of his counterpart Lotay Tshering, India's Ministry of External Affairs announced on Friday. "The visit reflects the high ...
NEW DELHI–Around 20 people died and over 22,000 were evacuated in floods over the last 24 hours in India's southern state of Kerala, media reported on Friday. Most parts of the state were witnessing a heavy rainfall. A warning has been iss...
