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  ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States will have a crucial round of their sustained dialogue in Islamabad this week. US President Barack Obama’s...

Filipino workers who returned home from Syria sign their immigration forms on arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport via a chartered flight,...

MANILA: The government asked peace-loving citizens to help in ensuring that the atmosphere of encouragement and stability that followed the signing of a...

MANILA: The Philippine government said yesterday it has approved the export of 25 show dolphins to Singapore after a ban on their transport...

BAGUIO CITY: The shift to more environment-friendly mining at the Gaang Mines in Balbalan town, Kalinga has led to the reduced volume of...

  MANILA: The Bureau of Customs (BoC) yesterday seized two 40-footer reefer vans filled with $900,000 worth of illegally imported Peking ducks and pigeons....

BEIJING: China condemned a visit by two Japanese ministers to a controversial shrine for war dead yesterday, further straining already tense relations between...

  SEOUL: South Korea reacted angrily yesterday to a visit by Japanese opposition leader Shinzo Abe to a Tokyo war shrine, saying Japan should...

WASHINGTON: The United States has concluded its first set of human rights talks with Myanmar and is confident it now has an “open...

SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak made a surprise visit yesterday to an island near the tense border with North Korea that was...

DHAKA: A young Bangladeshi man accused of plotting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve is a bank manager’s son who dropped...

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police were yesterday hunting for a fishing trawler believed to have been stolen by its crew in a bid to...

Striking miners march to the offices of Anglogold Ashanti in Carletonville yesterday. Thousands of South Africa miners returned to work, just hours before...

MANCHESTER: US President Barack Obama said yesterday that Mitt Romney had taken a swing and missed when selling his tax plan to Americans,...

HURDAL/BOGOTA: Colom-bian and FARC rebel negotiators announced they will meet in Cuba in mid-November to start substantive peace talks where they will seek...

TOULOUSE: France is to scrap plans to make would-be citizens pass a test on the country’s history and culture before being naturalised, Interior...

LONDON: Britain launched a new spy recruitment drive yesterday aimed at “Xbox generation” youngsters without a university education but with social media and...

BERLIN: A German court has ruled against a dentist who admitted he had refused to employ a Muslim woman because she declined to...