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Male: The Maldives' Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed exiled former president Mohamed Nasheed's 13-year jail sentence on terrorism charges, allowing...

Colombo: More than 10,000 protesting supporters of Sri Lanka's ousted prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, brought parts of the capital, Colombo, to a...

Beijing/Paris: The wife of former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei has hired two law firms to help track down her husband, who has been missing since travelling...

Singapore/Jakarta: The Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX jet that crashed in Indonesia on Monday morning flew erratically during a flight the previous evening when it...

Manila: A typhoon that devastated islands in the Western Pacific slammed into the Philippines on Tuesday, bringing strong winds and a risk of floods, storm...

Tunis: A 30-year old woman blew herself up in the centre of the Tunisian capital on Monday, wounding nine people including eight police in what the Interior...

Rio De Janeiro/Brasilia: Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right firebrand former army captain, won Brazil's presidential election in convincing fashion, wooing...

Tokyo: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to seek closer economic and military ties on Monday as the Japanese...

Beirut: The Lebanese Forces (LF) party said on Monday it will join a new national unity government led by Saad Al Hariri despite an unfair offer of cabinet...

Colombo: Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena is under increasing pressure to uphold the island nation's constitution and reconvene parliament after...