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Vostochny: Russia said it had lost contact Tuesday with a weather satellite just hours after it was launched from its Vostochny cosmodrome, in only the...

Naypyidaw: Pope Francis called for respect for rights and justice in a keenly-watched address in Myanmar on Tuesday, but refrained from any mention of the...

London: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been stripped of the honorific freedom of Oxford, the British city where she studied and raised her children,...

New York: Turkish-Iranian gold mogul Reza Zarrab will not stand trial in New York for allegedly defying sanctions on Iran, leaving a Turkish banker alone in...

Sydney: Mourners bid farewell to AC/DC co-founder Malcolm Young on Tuesday, with his brother Angus carrying a guitar case as he led his coffin out of...

Mexico City: Mexican finance minister Jose Antonio Meade resigned on Monday to run for president, with what many pundits see as the best chance to beat the...

Berlin: A knife attacker injured a German town mayor in an assault which officials on Tuesday said appeared motivated by the municipal leader's...

Cairo: Egypt's years-long military campaign against a militant insurgency in the north of the Sinai Peninsula is under increasing scrutiny following a...

Beijing: A Chinese court sentenced Taiwanese democracy activist Lee Ming-cheh to five years in prison on Tuesday on charges of attempting to subvert state...

Shanghai: A deadly blast that rocked China's port city of Ningbo at the weekend was caused by the mishandling of illegal explosives, police said on...