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Manila: The Philippines must make sure casinos are covered by anti-money laundering legislation, the World Bank said on Monday, joining calls for the...

London: British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday he was tightening laws to end tax evasion without deterring "aspiration", hoping to...

Seoul/Beijing: Two senior North Korean officials, including an army colonel specialising in espionage against the South, defected to South Korea last year,...

Jalalabad (Afghanistan): A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed at least 12 army recruits on a bus in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, hours...

Lima: Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of a jailed former president, led Peru's election on Sunday but she likely faces a tight run-off against centrist...

Manila: A tough-talking mayor in the southern Philippines, who has vowed to end corruption and crime, has topped the latest opinion poll and become the new...

Hiroshima(Japan): US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday called his visit to a memorial to victims of the 1945 US nuclear attack on Hiroshima...

New Delhi: Illegal cash of over Rs 530 million has been confiscated from the five Indian states facing Assembly elections with southern state of Tamil Nadu...

Chennai: DMK on Sunday promised total prohibition, setting up Lokayukta, a cut in state-run Aavin Milk price by Rs 7 a litre, revival of the Legislative...

Manila: Philippine soldiers battled a group of about 120 rebels linked to IS in a ten-hour assault on a southern island that killed 23 people, an army...