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Firefighters in Indonesia struggled on Wednesday to contain a blaze at an oil well in the northwestern province of Aceh that killed at least 15 people and injured 40, authorities …

Photo archive: Still image of a previous beheading perpetrated by the Islamic State Militants from Islamic State have beheaded three brothers, all working in the medical profession, in Afghanistan’s eastern …

Thirty-two Chinese tourists and four North Koreans died in a major bus accident in North Korea, China’s foreign ministry said on Monday, with two Chinese nationals seriously injured and left …

U.S. President Donald Trump said the North Korean nuclear crisis is far from conclusion on Sunday, striking a cautious note a day after the North’s pledge to end its nuclear …

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China later this week for an informal meeting with President Xi Jinping, as efforts at rapprochement gather pace …

Relatives mourn next to a victim outside a hospital after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan April 22, 2018. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a voter registration centre …

File photo: Dragon Boat Festival in Beijing Two dragon boats practising to race on a river in China have overturned and 17 people drowned, the official Xinhua news agency reported …

Nabi Tajima A Japanese woman born in the final year of the 19th century and believed to have been the world’s oldest person died on Saturday, Kyodo news agency said. …

Plain-clothes police officers escort Harshsai Gurjar (face covered), who is accused of sexual attack and murder of an 11-year-old girl, to present him before the media at a crime branch …

Kim Jong Un said his country no longer needed to conduct nuclear tests or intercontinental ballistic missile tests because it had completed its goal of developing nuclear weapons North Korea …