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Chinese state media on Monday attacked critics of ending presidential term limits, which effectively now allows President Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely, saying the key to China’s path was following the Communist Party. China’s...

Taliban fighters have captured a district center in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah bordering Iran, where they have battled government security forces fiercely in recent months, officials said on Monday. Naser Mehri, a spokesman for the...

At least 50 people died after a US-Bangla Airlines aircraft flying from Dhaka to Kathmandu crashed while landing at Tribhuvan International Airport on Monday, according to a report. A US-Bangla Airlines flight from Dhaka has crashed...

 Two senior South Korean officials who met with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un last week will split up to visit the leaders of China and Japan this week to update them on the talks, a South...

Paying no heed to bemused onlookers, a group of women in the Saudi city of Jeddah marked International Women’s Day on Thursday by exercising one of their newly acquired freedoms: the right to go for a...

China will respond as necessary in the event of a trade war with the United States, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday, while warning that such a war would only harm all sides. U.S. President...

A majority of Republican lawmakers in the tightest congressional races are changing their message on guns, expressing new support for restrictions after last month’s high school shooting in Florida, according to a Reuters review of the...

The United Nations human rights chief said on Wednesday that he strongly suspected that “acts of genocide” may have taken place against Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state since August. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, in a...

Priyabhashini suffered a massive cardiac arrest around 12:45 pm while undergoing treatment at the hospital. She was admitted to the hospital on February 23 with kidney and other ailments. Eminent Bangladeshi sculptor and freedom fighter Ferdousi...

China’s increase in military spending for 2018, the biggest rise in three years, was proportionate and low, and Beijing had not been goaded into an arms race with the United States, state media said on Tuesday....