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Bangkok: Human rights activists on Monday called on Thailand's junta to drop sedition charges against a rights lawyer in the first such case against an...

Seoul: South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday proposed amending the constitution to allow presidents to serve multiple terms or to establish a...

Tokyo: Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and later to conquer the world's seven highest peaks, has died at the age of 77, Japanese...

Valletta: A light aircraft crashed after taking off from Malta's main airport early on Monday, killing all five people on board, officials there said,...

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh, which is set to witness game-changer elections, and four other states will go to polls simultaneously, most likely in...

New Delhi: The Goods and Services Tax law will boost domestic demand, create more opportunities for domestic business and drive job creation, Prime Minister...

Beirut: The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said on Sunday the door to electing a president was "wide open"...

Dubai: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday the choice offered to voters in the US presidential election was between "bad and worse"...

Beirut: The battle for control of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo intensified on Sunday with air strikes, ground offensives and shelling, the morning...

Erbil: Kurdish fighters said they had taken the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from IS militant group on Sunday as coalition forces pressed their offensive...