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Human rights groups and outside experts say more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been rounded up in a network of internment camps across the far-western region. (Photo: AFP)World
Leaked China documents reveal -'no mercy-' in Xinjiang: NYT

The documents include previously unpublished speeches by Xi as well as directives on the surveillance and control of the...

17 Nov 2019 12:58 PM IST

China on Saturday deployed its troops in Hong Kong for the first time since the unprecedented pro-democracy protests began in the former British colony more than five months ago over a proposed extradition law, with soldiers in plain clothes clearing the roadblocks. (Photo: AFP)World
China army in Hong Kong for first time since pro-democracy protests...

It was also the first time in over a year that the PLA local garrison has been involved in the public community work.

17 Nov 2019 10:48 AM IST

Gotabaya Rajapaksa. (Photo: ANI)World
Gotabaya Rajapaksa claims victory in Sri Lanka presidential election

The election is the first popularity test of the UNP-led govt since the April 21 suicide bomb attacks that killed at...

17 Nov 2019 10:19 AM IST

This time the terrorists detonated a car bomb in the Al-Bab bus terminal in the Op Euphrates Shield area, killing 10 civilians and injuring more than 15.\ the ministry tweeted. (Photo: ANI Representational )West Asia
Syria: -'10 killed, 15 injured in car bomb attack,-' says Turkey...

Inhumane and uncivilized PKK/YPG terrorists continue to target innocent civilians using the same methods as Isla.

16 Nov 2019 6:38 PM IST

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: File)World
Lahore HC continues hearing in Nawaz Sharif-'s ECL case today

The high court had yesterday declared the petition as maintainable after hearing the arguments of PML-N-'s legal team...

16 Nov 2019 2:51 PM IST

The A320neo plane had taken off around 1.20 am with more than 160 passengers. (Photo: Representational)World
Pak air traffic controller saves Jaipur-Muscat flight after pilot...

Sources in the aviation authority said that the plane encountered abnormal weather conditions near the Chor area of...

16 Nov 2019 2:18 PM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that he holds no grudge against Nawaz Sharif and that the ailing former premiers health is more important than politics. (Photo: File)World
-'No grudge-' against former PM Nawaz Sharif: Imran Khan

Khan, however, regretted that the Sharif family was -'playing politics-' on the 69-year-old politician-'s health.

16 Nov 2019 11:13 AM IST

Gunmen opened fire on a convoy of buses carrying minority Muslim voters in northwest Sri Lanka on Saturday hours before polling in presidential elections got under way, police said. (AP/ Representational Image)World
Hours before polling, gunmen fire on buses carrying Muslim Lankan...

There were no immediate reports of casualties, but a police official said the attackers had burnt tyres on the road.

16 Nov 2019 8:30 AM IST

Sri Lankan staff workers leave for polling stations in Colombo on Friday. (AP)World
Sri Lanka to elect a new President today

Contest between Gotapaya Rajapaksa and Sajith Premadasa.

16 Nov 2019 1:26 AM IST

A spokeswoman for the US State Department said Trump remained committed to making progress on agreements he reached with Kim Jong Un at a first summit in Singapore in June last year, namely transformed relations, building lasting peace, and complete denuclearisation. (Photo: File)World
North Korea rejects US offer of December talks

North Korea has been seeking a lifting of punishing sanctions, but US has insisted Kim Jong Un must dismantle his...

15 Nov 2019 5:14 PM IST

US voters of Indian-origin and other Asian countries descent have thrown their weight behind Democratic presidential aspirant Joe Biden in the race to the 2020 nominations. (Photo: File)World
North Korea calls Joe Biden -'rabid dog-' who -'must be beaten to...

Pyongyang is renowned for its vitriol, but the verbal deluge was unusually ferocious even by its own standards.

15 Nov 2019 9:10 AM IST

The driver has been arrested. (Photo: Representational)World
Teenager kills one, injures three in Russian college before shooting...

Last October a teenage gunman killed 20 people and injured more than 40 at his college in Moscow-annexed Crimea.

14 Nov 2019 6:39 PM IST

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