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Nine dead as militants attack Philippine tourist island 11 Apr 2017 - 04:43 pm
Police and soldiers take position as they engage with the Abu Sayyaf group in the village of Napo, Inabanga town, Bolo province, in the central Philippines on April 11, 2017.   AFP / STR
Taking the web to children in India's remote salt desert 11 Apr 2017 - 04:18 pm
This picture taken on April 7, 2017 shows Anand Solanki (R), facilitator of the 'Zero Connect' programme, and teacher Deepsinh Vanola (top L), with a group of children of salt pan workers during a tent school workshop using an Internet-connected van, in t
Indonesian graft investigator injured in acid attack 11 Apr 2017 - 04:15 pm
This handout picture taken on April 11, 2017 and released by the Indonesian Police shows Novel Baswedan, a prominent Indonesian corruption investigator, as he gets treatment at a hospital in Jakarta. AFP PHOTO / INDONESIAN POLICE
Pakistan passes death sentence on Indian 'spy' 11 Apr 2017 - 11:52 am
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Most Asian markets rise but Syria, N. Korea worries sap gains 11 Apr 2017 - 11:16 am
Peninsula
Myanmar begins shuttering three Rakhine camps 11 Apr 2017 - 10:50 am
Myanmar's national security advisor Thaung Tun at a briefing held in Yangon on April 11, 2017. Tun told reporters that Myanmar has started the process of shutting three displacement camps in Rakhine State where hundreds of people have lived since sectaria
Policeman dead as armed men attack Philippine tourist island 11 Apr 2017 - 09:19 am
Peninsula
North Korea vows response to 'reckless' US Navy move 11 Apr 2017 - 08:19 am
The US Navy's Carl Vinson aircraft carrier has been deployed to the Korean Peninsula in a show of force against growing threats from the North. Reuters
Strong quake strikes off Mindanao, Philippines 10 Apr 2017 - 03:03 pm
Peninsula
Four killed in Kashmir firefight near border with Pakistan 10 Apr 2017 - 02:34 pm
Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard at a polling station in Srinagar on April 9, 2017. AFP / TAUSEEF MUSTAFA
Pakistan to execute Indian 'spy' 10 Apr 2017 - 02:29 pm
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Philippines: Abu Sayyaf kills 3 state militiamen 10 Apr 2017 - 01:29 pm
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Pakistan condemns fresh killings in occupied Kashmir 10 Apr 2017 - 01:17 pm
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China bars wife of detained Taiwan activist from visiting 10 Apr 2017 - 12:01 pm
Peninsula
Tiananmen Mao portrait protester dies in US 10 Apr 2017 - 11:58 am
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Australia wheat board chairman punished over Iraq 'kickback' 10 Apr 2017 - 10:56 am
Peninsula
Malaysia seizes big shipment of rhino horns at airport 10 Apr 2017 - 10:50 am
KLIA customs director-general Hamzah Sundang (second from right) poses with rhino horns that were seized on April 7 from Mozambique to Kuala Lumpur via Doha, during a news conference at the airport in Sepang April 10, 2017. — Reuters pic.
Indian police arrest mastermind behind US tax scam 10 Apr 2017 - 10:34 am
Police officials escort Sagar Thakkar, the suspected mastermind in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) call center scams, to a police station in Thane, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, April 8, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer