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Bangkok: Thais are crowding shopping malls and department stores to stock up on black clothes, as they begin a year of mourning for beloved King Bhumibol...

Bangkok: Thai police are investigating 12 new complaints of royal defamation on social media lodged since the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej last week, a...

Hong Kong: Dozens of pro-Beijing lawmakers walked out of the Hong Kong legislature on Wednesday to prevent the swearing-in of two pro-independence...

London: British finance minister Philip Hammond has told Prime Minister Theresa May that he will not quit the government after media reports of a split...

Beijing: China said on Wednesday that Japan had acted irresponsibly by withholding its 2016 funding for the UN heritage body UNESCO in a row over how the...

Paris: French police officers staged a second night of protests overnight and booed their boss to decry anti-police violence and what they say are...

Mumbai: Amid veiled threat by MNS of vandalism at multiplexes if Karan Johar's Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is screened, the producers on Tuesday sought police...

Abuja/Dakar: The 21 Nigerian schoolgirls freed by Boko Haram militants last week after two-and-a-half years' captivity urgently need support to...

New Delhi: A four-slab GST tax structure of 6, 12, 18 and 26 per cent with lower rates for essential items and the highest for luxury goods that will also...

CAIRO: Borrowing a cup of sugar from your neighbour has rarely been so contentious in Egypt. At supermarkets across the country sugar has all but vanished,...