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Beijing: China, fearing a rapid escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula, called on North Korea on Wednesday to stop its nuclear and missile tests and...

Tokyo: Rattled by North Korean military advances, influential Japanese lawmakers are pushing harder for Japan to develop the ability to strike preemptively...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak struck a softer tone with North Korea on Wednesday, a day after accusing it of treating Malaysians as...

Yangon: Thousands of people have fled clashes between the Myanmar military and ethnic rebels along the border with China, a Chinese official said, as...

Sydney: Climate change was responsible for breaking more than 200 Australian weather records over the past three months, researchers said on Wednesday, a...

Kabul: In Kabul's national sports stadium, two young women fencers take guard, their faces covered with protective wire masks as they stand off warily,...

Kabul: Gunmen dressed as medics stormed a hospital in the Afghan capital on Wednesday and battled security forces for hours, killing more than 30 people and...

Beirut: A U.S. Navy ship changed course towards Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels in the Gulf waters on Saturday, a guard commander was quoted as saying...

New Delhi: Indians headed to the polls on Wednesday in the final lap of a race for the country's most politically important state, the biggest mid-term...