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South of Mosul: The mouth of the tunnel is hardly visible on a muddy hillside overlooking Mosul, where fighting now rages between Iraqi forces and IS...

Beijing: China's defence budget will rise 7 per cent in 2017, to 1.044 trillion yuan ($151.43 billion), state media said on Monday, after the omission...

Manila: The Philippines police chief announced the re-launch on Monday of police anti-narcotics operations he hoped would be less bloody, "or even...

Manila: A retired policeman testified before a Philippine Senate hearing on Monday to killing nearly 200 people as part of a "death squad" under...

London: A quarter of all global deaths of children under five are due to unhealthy or polluted environments including dirty water and air, second-hand smoke...

Peshawar: Five Pakistani soldiers were killed by militants in a cross-border terrorist attack on three border posts in the country's restive northwest...

New York: Violence is the biggest challenge facing women around the world as progress in gender equality is erratic and at times a baffling contradiction,...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak rebuked North Korea on Monday as his government prepared to kick out its envoy following his...

Seoul/Shanghai: South Korea's Lotte Group on Monday said more than 10 of its Chinese retail stores have been closed after inspections by authorities, as...

Seoul: South Korea's President Park Geun-hye colluded with her friend Choi Soon-sil to receive bribes from Samsung Group aimed at cementing Samsung...