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Beijing: Five years after the charismatic and high-profile former Communist Party boss of the Chinese metropolis of Chongqing was jailed for life for graft,...

Jakarta: Indonesia has blocked microblogging site Tumblr after complaints about adult content on hundreds of accounts, the communications ministry said on...

Salisbury (England): British police raced on Tuesday to identify the substance suspected of striking down a former Russian double agent convicted of treason...

Beijing: China's increase in military spending for 2018, the biggest rise in three years, was proportionate and low, and Beijing had not been goaded...

Colombo: Sri Lanka declared a nationwide state of emergency for 10 days on Tuesday to stop the spread of communal violence, a government spokesman said,...

Melbourne/Wellington: Aid workers struggled to reach remote areas of Papua New Guinea's rugged highlands on Tuesday as aftershocks rattled the region,...

Tokyo: A Japanese volcano which featured in a 1960s James Bond movie shot smoke and ash thousands of metres into the sky on Tuesday, prompting the...

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met senior South Korean government officials for the first time and said it is his "firm will to vigorously...

Yangon: Myanmar's "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims is continuing, a senior UN human rights official said on Tuesday, more than six...

Salisbury (England): A former Russian double agent convicted of treason in Moscow was critically ill in a British hospital on Tuesday after exposure to an...