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Sri Lanka speaker says he won't accept Rajapaksa as PM without majority support 05 Nov 2018 - 06:59 pm
Karu Jayasuriya, Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, looks on during a party leaders and members meeting at the parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka November 2, 2018. Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte
Another tiger killed in India after hunting controversy 05 Nov 2018 - 03:08 pm
The dead body of the tiger known to hunters as T1 after being shot in the forests of India's Maharashtra state near Yavatmal. AFP PHOTO / MAHARASHTRA FOREST DEPARTMENT
Indonesia jet had damaged airspeed indicator on last four flights: official 05 Nov 2018 - 02:08 pm
A worker assists his colleague during the lift up of a damaged tyre from the Lion Air flight JT610 jet, at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Beawiharta
Alibaba's Ma calls trade war 'stupidest thing in the world' 05 Nov 2018 - 02:07 pm
Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba, arrives for a forum of the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai on November 5, 2018. Matthew Knight/Pool via REUTERS
Indonesia to probe Lion Air after deadly plane crash 05 Nov 2018 - 12:19 pm
The wheels of the Lion Air flight JT 610 is lifted into the Indonesia's KRI Banda Aceh warship during a salvage operation in the Java Sea on November 2, 2018.  / AFP / ADEK BERRY
Sri Lanka crisis scares tourists in fresh hit to economy 05 Nov 2018 - 09:33 am
Foreign tourist pose for photographers at Sri Lanka's Independence Memorial Hall, which was built to commemorate the country's independence from British rule, in Colombo on November 5, 2018. / AFP / LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI
Polluted Delhi air akin to death sentence, say doctors 05 Nov 2018 - 09:07 am
Heavy smog conditions are pictured over New Delhi on November 2, 2018.  AFP / CHANDAN KHANNA
Sri Lanka's president summons parliament on November 14 as pressure over PM's sacking grows 04 Nov 2018 - 10:20 pm
A photograph of Sri Lanka's ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe taking an oath as he was sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena in 2015, is seen on a wall as Wickremesinghe speaks during an interview with Reuters at the Prime Minister's off
N. Korea warns of returning to nuclear policy 04 Nov 2018 - 12:02 pm
Peninsula
15 killed as truck hits 31-car lineup in China 04 Nov 2018 - 11:08 am
Chinese police officers and rescuers work at the site of where a truck ploughed into cars at a toll booth in Lanzhou in China's northwestern Gansu province early on November 4, 2018. China OUT / AFP / STR
N. Korea welcomes Cuban president to Pyongyang 04 Nov 2018 - 09:55 am
President of the State Council and Council of Ministers of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez and Russian President Vladimir Putin (not seen) attend signing ceremony following their talks at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia on November 02, 2018. ( Sefa K
Aussie nun who angered Duterte forced to leave Philippines 03 Nov 2018 - 10:00 pm
Patricia Fox waves as she leaves the Bureau of Immigration headquarters in Manila. (Reuters file photo)
US soldier killed in 'apparent insider attack' in Kabul: NATO 03 Nov 2018 - 03:10 pm
A NATO helicopter flies over the Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan November 3, 2018.REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail
Man-eating tiger shot dead in India after massive hunt 03 Nov 2018 - 12:30 pm
Indian Forestry Department
"Father of Taliban" Mullah Sami ul-Haq killed in Pakistan: Deputy 02 Nov 2018 - 09:44 pm
FILE PHOTO: Maulana Sami-ul Haq, a Pakistani cleric and head of Darul Uloom Haqqania, an Islamic seminary and alma mater of several Taliban leaders, talks during an interview with Reuters at his house in Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Septembe
Japan reporter freed in Syria says he made 'silly' mistake 02 Nov 2018 - 08:47 pm
Jumpei Yasuda, the Japanese journalist held in Syria for more than three years, bows during a news conference for the first time since his release last month, at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, Japan November 2, 2018. (REUTERS/Issei Kato)
Asian MPs urge halt to Rohingya repatriation plan amid safety fears 02 Nov 2018 - 11:00 am
In this file photo taken on August 8, 2018 Rohingya refugees collect water at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia.  / AFP / CHANDAN KHANNA
Pakistan military says 'patience' tested ahead of mass blasphemy protests 02 Nov 2018 - 10:42 am
Pakistani supporters of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), a hardline religious political party, chant slogans during a protest following the Supreme Court decision to acquit Christian woman Asia Bibi, in Karachi on November 1, 2018. / AFP / ASIF HASS