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SEOUL: North Korea kept the world on edge yesterday over an expected missile launch while turning its own energies to celebrating leaders past...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Foreign ministers from Asean and China will hold a special meeting to hasten progress on a code of conduct in...

TOKYO: Members of Myanmar’s Muslim minority Rohingya community said yesterday they have been barred from a gathering to welcome democracy hero Aung San...

BEIJING: Authorities in Xian, the Chinese city home to the Terracotta Warriors, have ordered most of the buildings in a 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple...

KUALA LUMPUR: Activists warned yesterday that wild populations of Southeast Asia’s striking Tokay Gecko were in danger of being over-hunted for use in...

  SHANGHAI: The death toll from H7N9 bird flu in China reached 10 yesterday with another victim in Shanghai, as cities banned people from...

Protesters carry placards during a rally in front of the Chinese consular office in Manila yesterday, against a Chinese fishing vessel that ran...

MANILA:  The mayor of Tawi-Tawi who is running for re-election under the administration’s Liberal Party (LP), his running mate and supporters were detained...

MANILA: Over 6,000 undocumented Filipinos, including children, in Saudi Arabia are seeking immediate repatriation. Labour Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz yesterday said the report came...

  MANILA: House Assistant Majority Leader and Davao City Representative Karlo Nograles urged educational institutions to implement a programme detecting early signs of depression...

MANILA:  Like in the 2010 elections, the winners of this year’s electoral exercise will be known within 48 hours after voting ends, the...

MANILA: The Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf), the largest Muslim rebel group in the country, again failed to sign...

  MANILA: A Jemaah Islamiyah-led local terrorist group of recruits ambushed a team of Army soldiers in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan, killing a soldier, military reports...

Black-hooded human rights activists hold banners demanding the closing of Guantanamo during a protest, part of the Nationwide for Guantanamo Day of Action,...

LONDON: Britain will not invite Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral next week in a snub likely to deepen...

STOCKHOLM: A mosque in a Stockholm suburb has been given the green light to issue Friday prayer calls from its minaret, the first...

WASHINGTON: The US Senate cleared the way yesterday for an emotional, weeks-long debate on proposals to curb gun violence, rejecting an effort by...

LONDON: World powers pledged new measures and funds yesterday to tackle rape and sexual violence used as a weapon of war, in a...