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New Delhi: A group of ministers (GoM) yesterday reached a consensus on the anti-rape bill with an agreement on replacing the word ‘sexual...

Filipino evacuees fleeing Sabah arrive on a Philippine Navy boat at Tawi-tawi, yesterday. MANILA: The Philippines Navy said it had detained 35 suspected...

DHAKA: Islamic activists have attacked dozens of Hindu temples and hundreds of homes across Bangladesh since an Islamist leader was sentenced to death...

SEOUL: North Korea took its first official swipe at South Korea’s new president yesterday, employing a phrase to paint Park Geun-Hye as overbearing...

SEOUL: North Korea took its first official swipe at South Korea’s new president yesterday, employing a phrase to paint Park Geun-Hye as overbearing...

Monywa: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged protesters yesterday to accept a controversial Chinese-backed mine that was the scene of a...

TOKYO: Japan has called for stronger security ties with Southeast Asia as Tokyo looks to boost alliances at a time of growing territorial...

MANILA: About 8,000 Filipino and American soldiers will take part in this year’s Balikatan exercise from April 5 to 17. The 29th Balikatan...

BEIJING: A Chinese city is searching for a foreign traveller to become a “modern Marco Polo”, with a 40,000 euro ($52,000) salary on...

A worker shovels snow in front of a restaurant on a sunny day on top of Feldberg mountain, 20km from Frankfurt, yesterday.  PARIS:...

HARRE, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe rights activists say they are suffering under a police crackdown designed to be an ominous warning ahead of a constitutional...

BERLIN: German authorities banned three ultraconservative Islamic groups yesterday, including one whose Internet propaganda videos helped inspire the extremist who killed two American...

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin reached back to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s era for a plan to improve Russians’ physical fitness yesterday, and appeared...

NUUK: An Inuit woman brought up to skin seals looked set to become Greenland’s first female prime minister after a backlash against foreign...

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all US spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains...

LLANO CHAJNANTOR: The world’s largest ground-based observatory opened for business yesterday in the desert of northern Chile, wielding unprecedented power to peer into...

BUENOS AIRES: Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, her approval rating plummeting, has refused to recognise the results of a referendum in which the people...

LONDON: He is performing handstands and eating constantly, and she is spraying her home with alluring scents — all the signs point to...