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Geneva: A UN report on establishing a database of companies with business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank has been delayed, the UN...

Paris: Independent Emmanuel Macron will easily beat far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a runoff in the French presidential election, but the outcome of a...

Nairobi: A Kenyan judge on Monday ordered officials from the national doctors' union to be jailed amid a strike in public hospitals that has turned into...

Jakarta: A former Indonesian education minister backed by the main opposition party has quietly made gains in the race to become the capital's governor...

Manila: When Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte summoned his security chiefs to an urgent meeting one Sunday night last month, his mind was already made...

Islamabad: After a two-week winter break, school in Islamabad started as usual at the beginning of January - but Shumaila Nelofar's two children did not...

Manila: A war on drugs in the Philippines has given rise to a culture of impunity and President Rodrigo Duterte is making too many policy decisions without...

Kabul: The number of Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan, already at the highest level in years, may increase this year if Pakistan maintains its...

Manila: A group of miners on Monday opposed the appointment of the Philippine environment minister saying her ordered closure of more than half of the...

Manila: The Philippine Supreme Court has upheld a 2014 lower court order to the family of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos to forfeit jewellery, describing...