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Bangkok: Up to 80 per cent of Thailand's tsunami warning system needs maintenance work, the deputy director-general of its disaster prevention...

Yangon: Police in Myanmar said on Monday they had detained one of the country's best known journalists, months after a social media clash with firebrand...

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday and agreed on the need for more action on North Korea just hours...

Sydney: Stricter screening of passengers and luggage at Australian airports will stay in place indefinitely after police foiled an alleged plot to bring...

Kabul: Militant group IS claimed responsibility for an attack on the Iraqi embassy in Kabul on Monday that began with a suicide bomber blowing himself up at...

Islamabad: A close ally of ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday submitted papers in parliament to become the new premier, part of a...

Caracas/Puerto Ordaz (Venezuela): Streets were deserted on Sunday as a minority of Venezuelans trickled to the polls to elect a constitutional super-body...

Seoul: The United States flew two supersonic B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force on Sunday after Pyongyang's recent tests of...