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Beijing: China on Friday opened to traffic a 22.13-km-long tunnel, which it claimed to be the “world’s longest”, in Xinjiang province. The Tianshan...

Bangkok: Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither...

Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that he will meet with US President Donald Trump in Florida over the weekend. Zelenskyy...

Beijing: China imposed sanctions on Friday against 20 U.S. defense-related companies and 10 executives, a week after Washington annoucned large-scale...

Dhaka/New Delhi: Bangladesh’s slain radical leader Sharif Osman Hadi’s party activists on Friday blocked one of Dhaka’s busiest intersections,...

Dhaka/New Delhi: BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Friday visited the grave of his father and Bangladesh’s former president Ziaur Rahman in Dhaka,...

Putrajaya: Imprisoned former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was sentenced to 15 years and a hefty 13.5 billion ringgit (USD 2.8 billion) in...

Jerusalem: A Palestinian attacker rammed his car into a man and then stabbed a young woman in northern Israel Friday, killing both, police said, as...

Tokyo: Japan’s Cabinet on Friday approved a record defence budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the coming year, aiming to fortify...

Toronto: A 44-year-old Indian-origin man has died of suspected cardiac arrest after waiting for more than eight hours for treatment in a Canadian...

Mosque bombing in Syria leaves 8 dead, several wounded Beirut: A bombing at a mosque in the Syrian city of Homs during Friday prayers killed at least...

Kyiv: A meeting with US President Donald Trump will happen “in the near future,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday, signalling...