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Bangkok: A British journalist faces up to five years in a Thai jail after he was arrested for carrying a gas mask and...

Juba: A South Sudan military court on Tuesday opened the trial of 13 soldiers accused of raping foreign aid workers and murdering a...

Tokyo: Yoshie Oka, the first person to raise the alarm outside Hiroshima that the Japanese city had been hit by an atomic bomb,...

Geneva: Smoking and other tobacco use kills more than seven million people each year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, also warning of...

Dhaka: Cyclone Mora battered Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing two people, ripping through camps housing Rohingya refugees and forcing 450,000 people to flee coastal...

Moscow: A total of 170 people sought medical assistance following Monday's hurricane in Moscow, almost 150 of them were hospitalized, the head of...

Gaza: A Palestinian fisherman Tuesday was injured after he was shot by Israeli navy near al-Sudaniya sea area, northwest the city of Gaza,...

GENEVA: The United Nations named a trio of independent experts on Tuesday to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by Myanmar...

Baghdad: At least seven people were killed and 30 others were injured, including Iraqi police, in a car bomb attack near the General...

Paris: French customs officials said Tuesday that they had intercepted 135 kilogrammes (300 pounds) of Captagon, dubbed the "jihadists' drug", at Paris's Charles...

MARAWI CITY, Philippines: Dozens of foreign jihadis have fought side-by-side with Islamic State sympathisers against security forces in the southern Philippines over the...

Panama City: The late Manuel Antonio Noriega's public persona was extinguished nearly three decades ago, when the United States toppled him in an...

BAGHDAD: Two car bombs killed at least 14 people and wounded 50 others in streets packed with crowds preparing for the Ramadan fast...

Cairo: Barefoot and wearing shabby clothes, the two-year-old wanders through the dirty streets of Cairo alongside her mother, who has also spent all...

Sydney: A mother who fled conflict and admitted killing three of her children and attempting to murder a fourth by driving her car...

Seoul: North Korea on Tuesday boasted its test of a precision-guided missile was "successful", saying it had zeroed in within a few metres...

BERLIN: For German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who often pulls her rhetorical punches, her weekend message signalling a shift in the post-war order was...

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Bangladesh has evacuated at least 350,000 people as a cyclone lashed coastal areas on Tuesday, officials said, causing havoc in...