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Colombo: Sri Lanka's speaker of parliament said on Monday he would not accept a former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, as the new prime minister until he...

Jakarta: Relatives of the victims of an Indonesian jet that crashed into the sea off Jakarta last week killing all 189 on board demanded answers on Monday...

Bangkok: Thousands of farmers and indigenous people are being pushed from their homes and losing their livelihoods as India races to build massive statues...

New Delhi: Air quality in India's haze-hit north, including the capital, New Delhi, deteriorated sharply on Monday because of unfavourable weather and...

Muscat: Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan praised the greater connectivity that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) provided the two...

Paris: The South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia voted against independence from France on Sunday in a long-awaited referendum that capped a 30-year...

Aden: Yemeni forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition inched closer to the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Sunday as they battled Houthi fighters entrenched...

Milan: At least 12 people have been killed by severe weather on the island of Sicily, bringing the overall death toll from the storms sweeping Italy to 29,...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's deposed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the United States and Japan had frozen more than a billion dollars of development...