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Kabul: U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis visited Kabul on Wednesday to pledge support for the government of President Ashraf Ghani, with the precarious...

Raipur: A Kolkata-bound IndiGo flight, with over 150 passengers on board, on Wednesday made an emergency landing at Chhattisgarh's Raipur airport...

Cape Town/Johannesburg: Thousands of South Africans marched on Wednesday against corruption under President Jacob Zuma's rule, in protests led by unions...

Almaty: The first prominent dissident to return to Uzbekistan since the death of its long-time leader was detained on arrival on Wednesday, putting under...

New Delhi: Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Wednesday lauded BJP's Yashwant Sinha for talking "truth to the power" in an article on the...

Bangkok: Thailand's Supreme Court convicted and sentenced former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra in absentia to five years in prison on Wednesday for...

Jakarta: Indonesian authorities are preparing to divert flights to 10 airports across the country in case an increasingly active volcano on the holiday...

Jakarta: Indonesian police will deploy as many as 30,000 personnel to guard an anti-communist rally on Friday, as the country’s military chief and...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte welcomes an investigation by the state's anti-corruption agency into allegations by a senator that he...

Manila: Around half of Filipinos believe many people killed in the country's war on drugs were neither drug dealers nor violently resisted arrest as...