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People are evacuated by Myanmar soldiers after flooding in Swar township As many as 85 villages were flooded in Myanmar after a dam failed, unleashing waters that blocked a major …

US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during the signing of a document after their summit at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in …

People are evacuated after flooding in Swar township, Myanmar More than 50,000 people have evacuated their homes in central Myanmar after part of a dam failed on Wednesday, inundating communities …

File photo – Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi The Nobel Peace Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi will not be withdrawn in the light of a United Nations report that …

Rohingya refugees Myanmar rejected on Wednesday a report by United Nations investigators that called for top generals to be prosecuted for genocide, saying the international community was making “false allegations”. …

Geert Wilders plans a cartoon contest An Islamist party in Pakistan called for the expulsion of the Dutch ambassador on Wednesday as it launched a protest against a far-right Dutch …

A Chinese passenger plane with 166 people on board made an emergency landing with two wheels missing at Shenzhen airport on Tuesday, after the pilots aborted landing at nearby Macau …

FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees cross the Naf River with an improvised raft Myanmar’s military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with “genocidal intent” and the commander-in-chief …

File photo: Border Guards patrolling the Tajik-Afghanistan border (Khaama Press) A Tajik or Russian aircraft bombed a northeastern Afghan border district during a clash between gunmen and Tajik border guards, …

Mike Pompeo North Korea’s state-controlled newspaper on Sunday accused the United States of “double-dealing” and “hatching a criminal plot” against Pyongyang, after Washington abruptly cancelled a visit by Secretary of …