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File Photo: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak KUALA LUMPUR: The organisers of a massive weekend demonstration demanding the Malaysian prime minister's removal over...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo (R) talks to The International Monetary Fund managing director, Christine Lagarde (L) during a join press conference after their...

BEIJING: China on Tuesday rebuffed as "irritating" complaints from Japan about the Beijing visit of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to watch a military...

    BEIJING: After a series of flight disruptions by angry or unruly passengers, Chinese media on Tuesday revealed a new menace to air travel...

BANGKOK:  The hunt for a group behind the Bangkok shrine blast narrowed Monday as police revealed they had two new suspects -- one...

KATHMANDU: Nepal police fired into a crowd of demonstrators on Monday, killing one person as fresh protests erupted in the country's southern plains...

  Kabul: The Taliban yesterday admitted covering up the death of longtime leader Mullah Omar for two years, saying they had wanted to keep...

(FROM LEFT) Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Prime Minister Najib Razak and King Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah wave national flags during...

MANILA: An influential Christian group in the Philippines ended a protest yesterday over the prosecution of its leaders, calling off a blockade by...

Mourners follow the funeral procession of scholar M M Kalburgi at the Karnataka University in Dharwad yesterday.   Bangalore:  Indian scholars yesterday condemned the...

MUMBAI: A court here on Monday extended till September 5 the police custody of Indrani Mukherjea and two others accused of killing her...

JAKARTA: Indonesian trade unions expect tens of thousands of workers to call for higher wages at a mass protest against job cuts on...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's top diplomat said Monday that military offensives in its northwestern tribal areas had almost wiped out the Haqqani militant network known...

BANGKOK: Two weeks on from the Bangkok bombing, the shrine devastated by the attack has lost none of its lustre for ethnic Chinese...

TOKYO:  Tokyo's sixties-era modernist masterpiece Hotel Okura, which hosted foreign leaders, royalty, celebrities and even James Bond, turned off the lights Monday, more...

NEW DELHI:  India should "move towards" abolishing the death penalty and immediately restrict it to cases relating to terrorism and "waging war", the...

  NEW DELHI: India's economy grew by a slower than expected 7.0 percent in the first quarter, official figures showed Monday, adding to pressure...

NEW DELHI: Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was given additional charge of the law ministry on Monday in a meeting presided over...