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Shops closed their doors in Addis Ababa's largest market on Tuesday in protest at a recent hike in business taxes, ...

At a small park outside the Beijing home of late Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, security officers sat around a ...

Heavy bombardment and fierce fighting shook the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold Raqa on Monday, as US-backed forces said they ...

From communing with forest spirits to whipping up love potions, Thailand's cave-dwelling hermits once conducted their supernatural endeavours with just ...

Hundreds of Singaporeans staged a rare protest Saturday calling for an independent inquiry into a bitter family feud between Prime ...

All Blacks centre Sonny Bill Williams was Sunday suspended for four weeks for a dangerous tackle in the second Test ...

Thousands of Singaporeans dressed in pink packed a city park on Saturday for a gay-rights rally under tight security after ...

When Pakistani authorities burst into a makeshift hospital in Lahore this year, doctors were caught mid-way through two illegal kidney ...

At least eight migrants drowned when their Europe-bound boat sank off Libya's coast and at least 100 people are missing, ...

Philippine authorities said Sunday they were trying to negotiate a ceasefire in a war-torn southern city to rescue up to ...

Philippine security forces have killed 89 Islamist militants during more than a week of fighting in a southern city but ...

US officials came out Tuesday to praise and defend President Donald Trump's first Middle East tour, but one question about ...

Philippine authorities on Tuesday warned Islamist militants occupying parts of a southern city to surrender or die, as attack helicopters ...

Philippine authorities on Tuesday urged Islamist militants occupying parts of a southern city to surrender for the sake of trapped ...

Security forces traded heavy gunfire with Islamist militants inside a southern Philippine city Monday, as fears grew for up to ...

Apple opened its first Southeast Asia store in Singapore on Saturday, drawing hundreds of excited fans to the swanky two-storey ...

Philippine security forces bombed a southern city on Thursday as they battled Islamist militants who were holding hostages and reported ...

Four people were killed when police clashed with former rebels barricading the road into the Ivorian city of Bouake, as ...

Tunisian officials warned Tuesday that tensions in the country's south could escalate following a protester's death after clashes with security ...

When an emergency call comes in from one of South Africa's most crime-ridden neighbourhoods, ambulances do not rush straight to ...