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Yangon: Human rights monitors on Wednesday urged Myanmar to withdraw a ban on protests in its largest city, Yangon, amid fears that free speech is under...

Seoul: After a summer filled with flaming rockets and an earth-shaking nuclear blast, North Korea's state media is portraying Kim Jong Un as a leader...

Naypyitaw: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on Wednesday for a credible investigation into reports of human rights abuses against Rohingya...

Corning (Northern California): A gunman carrying a semi-automatic weapon and two handguns opened fire at multiple locations across a small Northern...

Seoul: A North Korean soldier who suffered critical gunshot wounds during a defection dash over the border to South Korea this week stabilised on Wednesday...

Manila/Los Angeles: Three UCLA basketball players detained in China on suspicion of shoplifting arrived back in the United States on Tuesday after U.S....

Seoul: A rare earthquake of magnitude 5.4 rattled South Korea on Wednesday, its second most powerful quake on record, shaking buildings but causing no major...

Srebrenica (Bosnia): Almir Salihovic sits in his office in Srebrenica, waiting for a U.N. tribunal to give its judgement on the man accused of massacring...

Jakarta/Timika (Indonesia): An Indonesian police officer was killed and a second wounded on Wednesday, after both were shot in the back in an area near...