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Beijing: China on Tuesday accused one of its former top military officers of taking "huge" bribes for promotions, as President Xi Jinping presses...

Washington: Climate change can be expected to boost the number of annual premature US deaths from heat waves in coming decades and to increase mental health...

Seoul: North Korea can mount a nuclear warhead on a medium-range missile, a South Korean official said on Tuesday in a new assessment of the capability of a...

Charikar(Afghanistan): A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up near a school north of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, killing at least six...

Beijing: China on Tuesday banned imports of gold and rare earths from North Korea as well as exports to the country of jet fuel and other oil products used...

Hanoi: Mosquitoes have infected two women with the Zika virus in Vietnam, health authorities said on Tuesday, in the country's first cases of a disease...

Dhaka: A former Bangladeshi prime minister surrendered to a court on Tuesday in connection an arrest warrant over a deadly fire bombing attack on a bus. She...

Kathmandu: Nepal risks more turmoil if it fails to address the demands for greater representation of minority ethnic Madhesis in the new constitution, the...

Peshawar: The Taliban appointed the son of its late founder Mullah Mohammad Omar as head of a military commission on Monday and named him and his uncle to...

Guwahati: One person was killed and 20 others, including four police men, injured in a bomb blast near a temporary election office of BJP on Monday night in...