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Bangkok: Thailand is seeking to prosecute ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra for graft under a law that allows politicians to be tried in absentia, an...

Naypyitaw: Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Tuesday she hopes talks with Bangladesh this week will result in a memorandum of...

Geneva: The United Nations urged Sudan to end violence and human rights abuses against the 2.6 million people displaced by its long conflict in Darfur, a...

Berlin:Two veteran allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to Germany's parties on Tuesday to strike compromise to form a stable government that...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Syrian leader Bashar Al Assad to talk about the need to move from military operations to the search for a...

Beijing: China said on Tuesday it has urged Thailand to "quickly bring to justice" 20 ethnic Uighur Muslims from China who broke out of a Thai...

Hong Kong: A lack of space for cemeteries in crowded Hong Kong clashes with the age-old Chinese tradition of reverence for one’s ancestors. But one...

Phnom Penh: Sweden said on Tuesday it was stopping new aid for Cambodia, except in education and research, and would no longer support a reform programme...

Prague: Czech police have requested parliament lift the immunity of prospective prime minister Andrej Babis to allow prosecution in a case involving alleged...

Washington: A small fly that thrives at an inhospitable California lake east of Yosemite National Park long has perplexed observers who watch as it crawls...