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Tokyo: Japan has approached China and South Korea about holding a trilateral summit in Tokyo in February aimed at deepening cooperation on such issues as a...

Seoul: A South Korean court issued an arrest warrant on Saturday for the head of the national pension fund, the world's third largest, in a corruption...

Moscow: President Barack Obama has sanctioned Russia, expelled 35 Russian officials and shut down two Russian-owned compounds in the US over alleged Russian...

Lucknow: Prospects of Bihar-type grand coalition in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming assembly polls ended on Wednesday, with Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam...

New Delhi: The cabinet on Wednesday approved promulgation of an ordinance to impose a penalty, including a jail term, for possession of the scrapped 500 and...

Washington: US Secretary of State John Kerry warned on Wednesday that the future of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was in...

Dubai: Iran has warned off foreign surveillance planes that have tried to approach its forces during air defence exercises, an Iranian military spokesman...

New Delhi: Career bureaucrat Anil Baijal was on Wednesday appointed as the new lieutenant governor of Delhi, a post which has fallen vacant after sudden...

Berlin: German authorities have detained a Tunisian man they suspect of involvement in the truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market which killed 12 people,...

Riga/Tallinn: Russia and its president Vladimir Putin should expect tough sanctions after cyber attacks during the presidential election won by Donald...