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India rebuffs US report on attacks on minority Muslims

-- 2019-06-23 18:55:07

India on Sunday rejected a US State Department’s annual report on religious freedom that raised questions about the government’s inability to curb violent attacks on the country’s mi...

Cambodia building collapse kills 18

-- 2019-06-23 18:35:05

18 people were killed when an under-construction building in Cambodia collapsed early on Saturday, an official said, as rescuers struggled to reach missing workers feared trapped under a mountain of t...

Iran lawmakers chant ‘Death to America’ as US called ‘terrorist’

-- 2019-06-23 13:14:47

Iranian lawmakers chanted “Death to America” during a parliament session on Sunday after a speaker accused the United States of being the “real world terrorist”, amid escalatin...

Kim receives ‘excellent’ letter from Trump

-- 2019-06-23 11:00:04

North Korea leader Kim Jong-un has received a personal letter from US President Donald Trump, state media has reported. Mr Kim praised the letter as "excellent" and said he would "seriously contempla...

Myanmar orders internet shutdown in Rakhine

-- 2019-06-22 18:56:59

Myanmar authorities ordered telecoms companies to shut down internet services in conflict-torn western Myanmar, a leading operator said on Saturday, amid heightening tensions in the region, where gove...

‘Southeast Asia making good progress on South China Sea’

-- 2019-06-22 18:45:33

Southeast Asian nations made good progress on a Code of Conduct negotiating draft for the disputed South China Sea and likely will finish a first reading by the end of this year, the Thai foreign mini...

Xi concludes successful visit to North Korea

Global Times 2019-06-22 18:20:10

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chinese President Xi Jinping returned to Beijing on Friday afternoon after concluding a successful state visit to North K...

'Iran will respond firmly to any US threat'

-- 2019-06-22 17:19:36

Iran said on Saturday it would respond firmly to any US threat against it, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, amid escalating tension between Tehran and Washington over the shooting down o...

Sri Lanka extends emergency for third month after Easter bombings

-- 2019-06-22 16:35:41

Sri Lanka has extended a law granting security forces emergency powers into third month following the Easter Day bomb attacks on hotels and churches that killed more than 250 people. Allowed to detai...

Kim, Xi agree to grow ties whatever external situation

-- 2019-06-22 12:32:02

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and China's President Xi Jinping reached a consensus on "important issues," and agreed to build on their countries' friendly relations "whatever the international situa...

HK protesters disperse after blockading police headquarters

-- 2019-06-22 12:18:05

Thousands of protesters who had blockaded police headquarters in Asia’s leading financial centre had mostly dispersed by Saturday morning with some roads reopened for traffic as normal but it re...

Sex scandal clouds Mahathir's succession plan

-- 2019-06-21 20:25:12

Leaked sex videos purporting to show a potential successor to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad with another man have deepened rifts within the ruling coalition and raised concerns of a turbul...

Fire at Indonesia matchstick factory, 30 dead

-- 2019-06-21 16:41:38

At least 30 people died on Friday after a fire swept through a small factory producing matchsticks in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, authorities said. Reuters reports, the blaze broke out...

Bus plunges into deep gorge in northern India, killing 39

-- 2019-06-21 11:36:14

A bus fell into a deep gorge along a sharp curve on a mountainous road in northern India, killing 39 people, police said Friday. Twenty-one people with injuries were hospitalised in Kullu, a town in...

North Korea woos Xi in lavish state visit

-- 2019-06-21 10:56:54

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed that strengthening bilateral ties, at a time of "serious and complicated" international affairs, was good for regional peac...

World looks with hope at Xi’s North Korea visit

Global Times 2019-06-20 17:24:38

Chinese President Xi Jinping embarked on a historic visit of North Korea on Thursday. The first visit since 2005 by a top Chinese leader to the country has the international community watching intentl...

China's Xi arrives in North Korea

-- 2019-06-20 14:07:31

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in North Korea on Thursday as Beijing looks to bolster its neighbour, hit by UN sanctions over its nuclear and missile programmes, a week before Xi and US Presiden...

Houthis say they hit Saudi power station with cruise missile

-- 2019-06-20 11:35:51

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis struck a power station in Saudi Arabia’s al-Shuqaiq city, in the southern province of Jizan, with a cruise missile, their Al Masirah TV said on Wednesday, but...

US mulling caps on H-1B visas to deter data rules

-- 2019-06-20 10:59:13

The United States has told India it is considering caps on H-1B work visas for nations that force foreign companies to store data locally, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, wide...

Iran ‘shoots down’ US spy drone

-- 2019-06-20 10:48:58

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) claim to have shot down a US spy drone over Iranian airspace. State media reported the military hit a drone, which they named as a RQ-4 Global Hawk, near...

Four charged with murder for shooting down MH17 plane

-- 2019-06-19 17:39:58

Four men have been charged with murder over the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jet in eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 passengers and crew. Dutch investigators have accused three Russians, Igor G...

China takes moral high ground in face of US power play

Global Times 2019-06-19 16:41:45

The Sino-US trade dispute is not only a game between representatives of the two countries at the negotiating table, but also a contest between the two sides in the field of international public opinio...

'No need for China to spy on India using balloons'

Global Times 2019-06-19 16:38:42

China does not need to use balloons to gather intelligence on India, and if balloons have indeed been deployed along the borders of Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, as Indian media reported,...

Eight killed in Uttar Pradesh road crash

-- 2019-06-19 13:57:47

At least eight people, including two children, were killed and 12 others injured early on Wednesday after a pick-up van collided head-on with a goods carrier in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh,...

Magnitude 6.8 quake strikes Kermadec Islands in Pacific

-- 2019-06-19 13:38:06

A magnitude 6.8 quake struck south southeast of Raoul Island in South Pacific chain of the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand, the US Geological Survey said on Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of...

MH17 crash investigators to name four suspects

-- 2019-06-19 12:47:57

Investigators probing the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jet in eastern Ukraine in 2014 will present new evidence later on Wednesday. The Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT) is expected to name...

Poor nations hosting most refugees worldwide, UN says

Reuters 2019-06-19 12:13:42

Developing countries, not rich Western nations, are bearing the brunt of the world’s refugee crisis and are hosting most of the record 70.8 million displaced people who have fled war and perse...

Rocket hits site of major foreign oil firms in Iraq, two hurt

-- 2019-06-19 11:30:24

A rocket landed at a residential and operations headquarters of several global major oil companies, including US giant ExxonMobil, near Iraq’s southern city of Basra early on Wednesday, wounding...

China calls on US to stop 'extreme pressure' on Iran

-- 2019-06-18 12:25:33

The United States should not use “extreme pressure” to resolve issues with Iran, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Tuesday, amid a standoff following attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf...

Rohingya crisis: UN finds its 'systemic failure' in Myanmar

-- 2019-06-18 11:57:38

There was a “systemic failure” of the United Nations in dealing with the situation in Myanmar ahead of a deadly 2017 military crackdown because it did not have a unified strategy and lacke...