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Geneva: More than 100,000 Rohingya refugees huddled in squalid, muddy camps in Bangladesh will be in grave danger from landslides when the mid-year monsoon...

Beijing: Unrelenting risks of "terror" and separatist activity in China's far western region of Xinjiang require a prolonged security...

Manila: Police in the Philippines on Monday resumed President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, making visits to the homes of users and dealers to...

Muscat: The word 'Aadhaar' has been chosen by Oxford Dictionaries as its first 'Hindi Word of the Year'. In November, 2017, Oxford...

Wellington: New Zealand military planes on Monday were scouring a section of the Pacific Ocean for more survivors from a missing ferry after eight people...

Kabul: Militants on Monday raided a military academy in Kabul, the Afghan capital, killing 11 soldiers, the fourth major attack in a spate of violence over...

Cairo: Egypt's public prosecutor has ordered the detention of three men pending an investigation into an attack on a former anti-corruption watchdog...

Cairo: Several leading opposition figures called on Sunday for a boycott of Egypt's March election, citing a wave of repression that has cleared the...

Zarqa (Jordan): The United States has delivered the last batch of Black Hawk helicopters for Jordan's rapid deployment force to bolster border defences...

Manila: Jeepneys, the flamboyant passenger trucks of the Philippines, are nearing the end of their reign as the "Kings of the Road", but...