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Beijing: China's President Xi Jinping has vowed to increase government support for technology companies, state media reported, in an attempt to raise...

London: The number of Afghans internally displaced by conflict has "dramatically" doubled to 1.2 million in just three years, Amnesty...

Dhaka: A court in Bangladesh sentenced six militants to hang on Tuesday for a bank robbery on the outskirts Dhaka in April that left eight people dead,...

Seoul: North Korea attempted to fire a missile from its east coast on Tuesday but the launch appears to have failed, South Korean officials said, in what...

Wellington: New Zealand's opposition Green Party and the Labour Party announced a pact on Tuesday to find ways to mount a joint challenge to the...

Kundunz: Gunmen in Afghanistan killed nine bus passengers and kidnapped 170 on Tuesday outside the northern city of Kunduz in an attack blamed on Taliban...

Tokyo/Seoul: Japan put its military on alert on Monday for a possible North Korean ballistic missile firing, while South Korea also said it had detected...

New Delhi: Adoption of WHO-propagated plain packaging for tobacco products in India will not help reduce tobacco consumption but only boost illegal trade...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on an official visit to Switzerland and Mexico next week, the External Affairs Ministry announced on...

Beirut: The Syrian opposition will meet in 10 days' time to decide who to send to future peace talks after its chief negotiator resigned, a spokesman...