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Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte rejected on Friday criticism from the United Nations about a surge in killings of suspected drug traffickers...

Tokyo: Japan aims to develop a prototype drone fighter jet in two decades with private sector help in a technology strategy that focuses on weapons...

Jakarta: Indonesia's disaster agency urged prompt action against slash-and-burn plantation fires on Friday as the annual smoke "haze" begins...

Bangkok: Police identified a Thai man on Friday as a suspect in their investigation into attacks that killed four people and wounded dozens in a wave of...

Salang Pass (Afghanistan): Afghanistan's campaign to clear millions of landmines left by the Soviet invasion and ensuing civil war is in danger of...

Manila: Seventeen communist guerrilla leaders in the Philippines, granted bail by the courts to attend peace talks next week in Norway, vowed on Friday to...

Los Angeles: Actress Amber Heard said on Thursday she is donating her $7 million divorce settlement from actor Johnny Depp to charity. Heard, 30, said in a...

New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi was on Friday discharged from the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here after successfully undergoing a minor procedure. The...

San Francisco: Firefighters were gaining ground on Friday against a wildfire burning in a Southern California mountain pass that has forced some 80,000...

Lahore: A Pakistani court on Friday banned construction of the country's first rapid mass transit system within 200 feet (61 metres) of historic...