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FILE PHOTO: Selling metal scrap can be a lucrative business in India Police in India were seeking to arrest members of a gang who dismantled a 60-feet-long iron bridge and …

Mersing district police chief Cyril Edward shows the pictures of British man Adrian Peter Chesters and French woman Alexia Alexandra Molina, who were found safe after drifting at sea for …

China’s state refiners are honouring existing Russian oil contracts but avoiding new ones despite steep discounts, heeding Beijing’s call for caution as western sanctions mount against Russia over its invasion …

Japan’s government has severed banking and trade ties with Russia over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, but a tobacco company in which it owns a one-third stake is still operating there …

Russia is turning to microchip manufacturers in China to circumvent western sanctions which have boosted demand for bank cards linked to the Mir payment system, an executive with the domestic …

Workers sort bags of vegetables and groceries to distribute them to residents at a residential compound in Shanghai China Daily via REUTERS Residents in the major Chinese financial centre of …

People shout slogans against Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and demand that Rajapaksa family politicians step down, at Independence Square in Colombo In 2020, Mahinda Rajapaksa won elections to become …

Security forces were deployed across the Sri Lankan capital on April 1 after protesters tried to storm the president’s home in anger at the nation’s worst economic crisis since independence. …

Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo North Korea opposes war but would use nuclear weapons if South Korea attacked, Kim Yo Jong, the …

The Taliban announced on Sunday a ban on the cultivation of narcotics in Afghanistan, the world’s biggest opium producer. “As per the decree of the supreme leader of the Islamic …