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A veteran opposition leader in Kyrgyzstan was arrested on corruption charges, security services said yesterday, as political tensions mount in the Central Asian country ahead of a November presidential poll.…

A Hazmat team conducts checks at KLIA2 airport terminal in Sepang, Malaysia February 26, 2017. REUTERS photo Malaysia on Sunday declared its international airport a “safe zone” after completing a…

Supporters and opponents of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte turned a traditional celebration of the 1986 “People Power” uprising into demonstrations for and against his bloody war on drugs. Former president…

Nurse during surgery (illustration) An elderly gang leader became mad after a nurse botched his penis enlargement procedure, according to police in Japan. Fukuoka police have arrested 41-year-old Yoshinobu Nakata,…

Malaysia’s Royal Police Chief Khalid Abu Bakar (C) speaks next to a screen showing North Korean Hyon Kwang Song during a news conference regarding the apparent assassination of Kim Jong…

Reuters photo A fierce blaze at a hotel in southeastern China killed 10 people, the official Xinhua news agency said in a post on its official microblog on Saturday. The…

A still image from a CCTV footage appears to show a woman (circled in red, behind counter staff) wearing a white shirt walking away after accosting a man purported to…

File photo from a previous bomb explosion in Lahore earlier this month A bomb blast in an upscale shopping centre in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore killed at least eight…

AP photo A former leader of Hong Kong was sentenced on Feb. 22 to 20 months in prison for misconduct after failing to disclose plans to rent a luxury apartment…

Former Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, his wife Selina and son Thomas arrive at the High Court in Hong Kong Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang was jailed for…