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Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia said talks were underway on Monday for the release of nine citizens stranded in North Korea by a travel ban, while its defence...

Islamabad: Pakistan will begin its first census in about two decades from Wednesday with the assistance of over 200,000 troops and civilian officials who...

Bangkok: Five dozen elephants used their trunks on Monday to scoop up bananas, melons and pineapples from baskets at a special buffet laid on in...

Edinburgh: Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Monday demanded a new Scottish independence referendum to be held in late 2018 or early 2019, once the...

Mosul: Iraqi special forces are engaged in a punishing and paranoid close-quarters battle against IS in western Mosul as they seek to drive the militants...

Mosul: Iraqi forces battling IS faced tough resistance from snipers and mortar rounds on Monday as they tried to advance on Mosul's Old City and a...

Seoul: The United States has started to deploy attack drones to South Korea, a U.S. military spokesman said on Monday, days after it began to deploy an...

Geneva: North Korea boycotted a U.N. review of its human rights record on Monday, as an investigator said an escalation in hostilities on the divided...

Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and maverick nationalist politician Pauline Hanson faced questions about their leadership on Monday after...