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Nine patients who had been hospitalized in the Russian city of Vladikavkaz after contracting coronavirus died after a burst pipe cut off their oxygen...

A Chinese court rejected Canadian citizen Robert Schellenberg'sappeal against a death sentence for drug smuggling on Tuesday.

Tokyo, Japan: Seventy-six years ago today (August 9) Nagasaki faced the brunt of the atomic bomb dropped by the US that marked the end of the Second World...

Kabul: The Taliban have captured Afghanistan's third provincial capital Kunduz in the last three days but fierce fighting is still underway in the city, the...

Beijing : The city of Beijing has rolled out a range of measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic by imposing restrictions on travellers...

A man with a knife attacked at least 10 people on a commuter train in Tokyo's Setagaya ward, in the west of the city, on Friday evening.

The brother of jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was handed a one-year suspended sentence by a Moscow court on Friday for defying...

The United Nations' Afghanistan envoy, Deborah Lyons, has called on the Taliban to stop its offensive on major cities immediately.

Kalimantan, Indonesia: The US and Indonesia have started a two-week military exercise, in three main Indonesian islands, including Kalimantan.The exercise...

Hiroshima, Japan: On the 76th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the city has called to abandon the atomic deterrence.The...