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Sydney: Lawyers for 850 asylum seekers held in a controversial detention centre in Papua New Guinea said on Friday they planned to seek potentially billions...

Sydney: Australia is working closely with the Afghan government to secure the safe return of an Australian aid worker believed to have been kidnapped,...

Shanghai: A fire in a basement at the Shanghai Hongqiao airport that broke out on Friday and killed two people has been put out, China Central Television...

Bangkok: A military court in Thailand on Friday jailed eight activists who posted comments critical of the ruling junta and a military-backed draft...

Seoul: North Korea's Supreme Court on Friday sentenced a Korean American man to 10 years of hard labour for subversion, North Korean media reported, in...

Beirut: Lebanese forces killed an IS leader on Thursday in an army operation in the mountainous border region with Syria, Lebanon's National News Agency...

Paris: A magnitude 5.2 earthquake rattled the southwestern French city of La Rochelle on Thursday in the strongest quake in mainland France since April...

Beirut: A hospital in a rebel-held area of the Syrian city of Aleppo was destroyed after being hit by a direct air strike, medical charity Medecins Sans...

Kunduz(Afghanistan): Bullet-ridden bunkers and signposts shredded by rockets bear witness to dozens of Taliban attacks this month on police posts around...

New Delhi: President of India Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday embarked on a six-day trip to Papua New Guinea (PNG) and New Zealand, his first state visit to...