Taipei, August 14 (AP): A delegation of American lawmakers is visiting Taiwan just 12 days after a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that angered China.
The five-member delegation, led by Democratic Sen
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Tehran, August 13 (AP): Iranians reacted with praise and worry on Saturday over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie, the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ca
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Seoul, August 12 (AP): South Korea's president will pardon Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong with a year left on his sentence for bribing a president as part of a massive corruption scandal that toppled her governm
Hong Kong, August 12 (AP): Hong Kong's government says its population has shrunk for a second year as anti-virus controls hampered the inflow of new workers and births declined, but it made no mention of an-
Islamabad, August 12 (PTI): The Pakistan government is preparing a "contingency plan" to deal with the potential resurgence of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as prospects of a peace dea
Seoul, August 12 (AP): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday proclaimed unwavering UN commitment to a fully denuclearised North Korea, even as a divided Security Council allows more room f
Kyiv, August 11 (AP) Ukraine has said that nine Russian warplanes were destroyed in a deadly string of explosions at an air base in Crimea that appeared to be the result of a Ukrainian attack, which would repre-
Beijing, August 11 (PTI) China on Thursday sought to defend its move to block a proposal by the US and India at the UN to blacklist Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) deputy chief Abdul Rauf Azhar, saying it
Seoul, August 11 (AP) In a striking speech before thousands of North Koreans, leader Kim Jong Un's sister said he suffered a fever while guiding the country to victory over the coronavirus. She blamed rival
Kyiv, August 11 (AP) The European Union's full ban on Russian coal imports kicked in on Thursday at a time when British defence intelligence said that Western sanctions were increasingly having an impact, e
