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London: A Royal Navy frigate escorted a Russian warship on Christmas Day as it passed close to British territorial waters, the ministry of defence said on...

Beijing: A Chinese court is auctioning a skyscraper on the country's largest e-commerce website -- with a sky-high starting price of 553 million yuan...

Tianjin: China sentenced an activist known by the online pseudonym "Super Vulgar Butcher" to eight years in prison on Tuesday, one of the harshest...

Dhaka: Bangladesh police arrested a 25-year-old social media activist as he tried to leave the country on charges that he defamed religion, authorities said...

Lima: Peruvian police on Monday fired tear gas and clashed with protesters marching against the pardon of ailing ex-president Alberto Fujimori, who was...

Lima: Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski defended his pardon for Alberto Fujimori on Monday as justified clemency for an ailing man whose...

Seoul: South Korea predicted on Tuesday that North Korea would look to open negotiations with the United States next year in an optimistic outlook for 2018,...

Monrovia:Liberians began voting on Tuesday to select either former international footballer George Weah or Vice President Joseph Boakai as their new...

Istanbul: The controversial trial of staff from Turkey's main opposition newspaper accused of terror links resumed Monday, in a case which has raised...

Moscow: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was barred on Monday from running in next year's presidential election after officials ruled he was...