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Pakistan has been scrambling in recent months to avoid being added to a list of countries deemed non-compliant with anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regulations by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a measure that officials fear could hu...

On Friday, the People's Liberation Army posted photos and a story on rescue training exercises taking place in the East Indian Ocean on its official Twitter-like Weibo account.

Artist Fahmi Reza was found guilty under a communications law for spreading online content deemed "obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person". Fahmi was also fined 30,000 ri...

China and the Philippines have long sparred over the South China Sea, but relations have improved considerably under Duterte, who has been courting Beijing in hopes of winning business and investment.

It was one of a series of tweets posted by President Donald Trump in the wake of the indictments filed Friday by special counsel Robert Mueller against 13 Russians for meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.

The IPC Sindh Boys Scouts Commissioner termed the recruitment step a positive initiative that would help the transgender community in improving its image at local as well as regional level.

Lt. Cmdr. Tim Hawkins said the USS Carl Vinson that the Navy has carried out routine patrols at sea and in the air in the region for 70 years to promote security and guarantee the unimpeded flow of trade that's crucial for Asian and US economies.

Ajay Gupta was declared "a fugitive from justice" by South Africa's chief prosecutor this week after he failed to report to police investigating allegations that millions of dollars of public money intended for a state-backed dairy project were siphoned o...

The epicentre was close to a surfer resort on the Pacific coast in the southern state of Oaxaca and had a depth of 15.3 miles (24.6 km), according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

For the last 10 years, the slight 63-year-old doctor, with white hair, glasses and a neat moustache, has been making his house calls to patients on horseback.

The EU wants to leverage its top aid donor role to revive the United Nations-led talks that have achieved little over seven years of the war and hit a deadlock as Russian and Iranian military interventions gave Assad the upper hand on the ground.

The travel ban challengers "offer undisputed evidence of such bias: the words of the President," Gregory wrote, noting Trump's "disparaging comments and tweets regarding Muslims."

President Bidhya Devi Bhandari appointed 65-year-old Oli as the country's 41st prime minister. Oli, who is known for his pro-China stance, had served as the country's prime minister from October 11, 2015 to August 3, 2016.

Delivering the first in a series of speeches branded as the 'Road to Brexit' campaign by Downing Street, the hard-core pro-Brexit minister said "Brexchosis" was reflective of Britain's self-deprecating spirit that failed to visualise the benefits of break...

"There is no difference if it's Chinese New Year or not. Burglars don't have holidays, we don't either," said Chang Fumao, 59, the head of the canine patrol, who has trained the dogs for more than 30 years.

Nikki Haley started her speech to the Security Council by recounting how a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, Noor Kadir, told AP about surviving an attack by soldiers on 14 friends trying to choose sides for a local soccer-like game in the village of Gu Dar...