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Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday promised an unrelenting war on drugs, defying critics who were "trivialising" his campaign...

Cape Town: The number of poached rhinos in South Africa decreased by 13 animals to 529 between January to June compared with the same period last year, a...

Occupied Jerusalem: An Israeli embassy security guard shot dead a Jordanian who attacked him with a screwdriver at Israel's embassy compound in Amman...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said he wanted to stop exporting mineral resources and might close the mining sector completely and...

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday described the outgoing President Pranab Mukherjee a guardian of the Constitution who always upheld its...

Yangon: Myanmar called for calm on Monday after 13 people were confirmed to have contracted H1N1 influenza and a boy had died with flu-like symptoms,...

Yangon: Flooding across large parts of Myanmar has displaced more than 100,000 people, causing two deaths, while dramatic riverbank erosion has washed away...

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his ratings sinking over a suspected cronyism scandal, on Monday said he had never instructed officials to give...

Jakarta: Indonesia's environment minister said on Monday she wants to make permanent a moratorium on issuing new licences to use land designated as...

Tokyo: Japan on Monday launched a scheme to promote "telework", or working from home, in an effort to ease congestion when Tokyo hosts the 2020...