BRUSSELS: NATO chief Mark Rutte held talks with US President-elect Donald Trump in Florida on the "global security issues ...

ANKARA - Turkey stripped two elected pro-Kurdish mayors of their posts in eastern cities on Friday, for convictions on ...

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The Suzhou Industrial Park started life 30 years ago as a joint project between Singapore and China. While Singapore now only ...

Canberra is pressing Laotian authorities for a full and transparent investigation into what happened. Vang Vieng has been a ...

On Wednesday, Gautam Adani, one of the world's richest men, and seven others were indicted  for fraud by US prosecutors over their alleged roles in a $265 million scheme to bribe Indian officials to s ...

The bombshell indictment in New York on Wednesday accusing Adani and his associates of paying more than $250 million in bribes to secure lucrative government contracts sparked a frenzied sale of stock ...

Japan will hold a memorial ceremony near the Sado Island Gold Mines, which were listed this summer as a UNESCO World Heritage site after the country moved past years of disputes with South Korea and ...

Parents frequently lie to their children. “No, you can’t have any chocolate – it’s all gone”, when there’s a jumbo bar of ...

The crisis in West Asia continues to intensify. On Saturday (Nov 23), Israeli strikes killed 19 people in the Gaza Strip and ...