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AN AFGHAN journalist working for a US-funded radio network was killed in a blast in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said, just days after a former television presenter was murdered …

 TWO people were killed when a pair of helicopters from the same Malaysian pilot school collided during a training flight, authorities said Sunday. Amateur video that has gone viral on …

THREE Indian soldiers and three suspected rebels were killed in fighting near the de facto Kashmir border with Pakistan, the army said Sunday, in the deadliest clash to hit the …

AN INDIAN government-backed Covid-19 vaccine could be launched as early as February -months earlier than expected – as last-stage trials begin this month, a senior government scientist said. The studies …

AN unethical, perhaps unwholesome, act has been uncovered by the Vietnam Police officers who discovered about 320,000 recycled used condoms, repackaged for sale. According to CBS News, as quoted by …

FORMER real estate mogul, Ren Zhiqiang, who publicly criticised President Xi Jinping’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. The businessman was investigated after …

ANKARA has lashed out at EU’s decision to sanction Turkish firm accused of breaking a 2011 UN arms embargo on Libya. Accusing the company of using the ship to smuggle …

DESPERATION had, in a surreal and eerie manner, supposedly pushed a 43- year-old father of five girls to slice open his pregnant wife’s stomach hoping to confirm she was having …

The Japanese parliament, on Wednesday, confirmed ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Yoshihide Suga as the country’s 99th prime minister. Suga, who won a resounding victory in the LDP leadership …