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WASHINGTON: Two US Navy warships sailed through international waters in the Taiwan Strait on Sunday (Aug 28), the first such operation since a visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker...

BRUSSELS: Serbia and Kosovo have settled an ethnic dispute over the movement of citizens across their border, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Saturday (Aug 27). "We...

SEOUL: Two South Korean companies have signed a US$5.76 billion contract with Poland to export tanks and howitzers, Seoul's arms procurement agency said on Saturday, after Warsaw agreed to ramp...

BANGKOK: A United States coast guard cutter conducting patrols as part of an international mission to prevent illegal fishing was recently unable to get clearance for a scheduled port call...

LIMA: LGBT activists in Peru held a protest on Friday (Aug 26) questioning how their government handled the death of a Peruvian transgender man in Indonesia earlier this month who...

LONDON: More than 115,000 workers at Britain's Royal Mail began the first of four days of strike action on Friday (Aug 26) in a pay dispute which the postal group...

BERLIN: It was when the Taliban came to arrest her and her brother in October that Fawzia Saidzada, an Afghan journalist and women's rights activist, finally decided it was time...

Authorities in Myanmar have detained Britain's former ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation, where a military junta seized power last year, three people with knowledge of the situation said on...

Myanmar's ruling military junta has confirmed in a statement that former British ambassador Vicky Bowman is being investigated under the country's Immigration Act. Bowman, who currently runs the Myanmar Centre...

SURABAYA: Almost two decades after the Bali bombings left Thiolina Ferawati Marpaung with permanent eye injuries, news that one of the masterminds could be released early has caused fresh trauma....