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Manila: Philippine lower house lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the re-imposition of capital punishment for serious drug offences on Tuesday, clearing...

Paris: Friends and detractors of Francois Fillon sought to bridge their deep divisions and put the French conservative candidate's presidential campaign...

New York: Three women at the same nursing home on Monday celebrated living more than 100 years with cake, songs and flowers while sharing their secrets of...

Mosul: Iraqi government forces fighting to drive IS from western Mosul on Tuesday recaptured the main government building, the central bank branch and the...

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised Monday's test launches of four missiles, the country's official news agency reported on Tuesday,...

Kuala Lumpur/Seoul: North Korea barred Malaysians from leaving the country on Tuesday, sparking tit-for-tat action by Malaysia, as police investigating the...

Manila: Philippine police killed four suspected drug dealers in three separate incidents on Tuesday, a provincial police commander said, just hours after a...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday he hopes there will be a "happy compromise" between the mining industry and...

Qayyara West Airfield: A U.S. general in the international coalition in Iraq says that IS militants defending western Mosul are disorganised and some...

Seoul/Chicago: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong have limited imports of U.S. poultry after the United States detected its first case this year of...