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Jakarta: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will visit Japan and Indonesia as part of an Asian tour next month, sources said on Monday, amid concerns the Trump...

Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi issued a pardon for 203 youths jailed for taking part in demonstrations, state news agency MENA said on...

Colombo: The worst drought in five years has pushed 900,000 people in Sri Lanka into "acute food insecurity”, the World Food Programme (WFP) says. An...

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was on Monday given the additional charge of the Defence Ministry after Manohar Parrikar resigned to take on the...

Addis Ababa: Desperate parents scrabbled through a towering pile of fetid garbage in the Ethiopian capital on Monday, screaming the names of missing...

Panaji: Manohar Parrikar on Monday resigned as the defence minister and will be sworn in as the chief minister of Goa on Tuesday heading the BJP-led...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday accused some miners of funding efforts to destabilise his government as he talked about a possible...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the navy to put up "structures" to assert sovereignty over a stretch of water east of the...

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Monday accused the BJP of "stealing" elections in Goa and Manipur, saying a party which comes...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia said talks were underway on Monday for the release of nine citizens stranded in North Korea by a travel ban, while its defence...