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NEW DELHI: India has received a note from Dhaka objecting to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's remarks offering shelter to people affected by violent-clashes in that country. "I can confirm that we have received such a…

MANILA: A Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil capsized and sank off Manila on Thursday, authorities said, as they raced to contain a spill. The MT Terra Nova was heading for the central city of…

Kathmandu: A passenger plane carrying 19 people crashed during takeoff in Kathmandu on Wednesday, killing 18 and leaving the pilot as the sole survivor, police in the Nepali capital told news agency AFP. The plane belongs to the domestic…

WASHINGTON: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked for unity from lawmakers Wednesday as he addressed a US Congress divided by his military campaign in Gaza, with a rift between the nations deepening over the conflict's…

COLOMBO: Japan will resume funding stalled infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka, including the expansion of the main international airport, government officials said Wednesday, after the bankrupt island nation successfully restructured its…

DHAKA: Garment factories and banks reopened in Bangladesh Wednesday after authorities eased a curfew imposed to contain deadly clashes sparked by student protests over civil service employment quotas. Last week's violence killed at least…

BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosted his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in southern China on Wednesday, with both sides calling for peace as Russia's war grinds on against its neighbour. China presents itself as a…

RAMALLAH: Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a declaration in Beijing on ending a yearslong rift, Chinese state media said Tuesday, taking a step toward potentially resolving the deep divide between the sides as Israel's war on…

TOKYO: The chairman and president of a major Japanese dietary supplement maker announced their resignation on Tuesday, as the company probes 80 deaths potentially linked to tablets meant to lower cholesterol. Kobayashi Pharmaceutical is…

ISLAMABAD: In the newly filed Toshakhana case, a Pakistani court extended Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi's confinement by seven days on Monday. Anti-corruption agency the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) accused the former couple of…

MANILA: After escalating South China Sea clashes with Beijing, President Ferdinand Marcos stated Monday that the Philippines "cannot yield" in territorial disputes. Manila and Beijing have long disputed portions of the key waterway that…

Palestinian Territories: After rockets were fired from a humanitarian zone, the Israeli military ordered Gazans to leave the eastern part of Khan Yunis city on Monday, saying it will "forcefully operate" there. "Due to significant…

DEIR AL-BALAH: Hospital officials and an Associated Press correspondent counted 15 people, including women and children, killed by Israeli airstrikes overnight in Gaza. The new strikes occurred as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

Dhaka: On Sunday, Bangladesh's top court cut back, but did not abolish, contentious civil service hiring rules that provoked national police-university student confrontations that killed 151 people. This week, a protest against…

Jerusalem: Despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's staunch opposition to a Palestinian state, the EU's Middle East peace envoy believes a two-state solution is possible. In an AFP interview, Sven Koopmans said Netanyahu's…

BEIJING: A heavy rain-caused bridge collapse in northern China killed 12 and left over 60 missing on Saturday, officials said. Shaanxi province's Shangluo river bridge collapsed "due to a sudden downpour and flash floods" at 8:40 pm…

GENEVA: UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Friday he was deeply concerned by this week's violence in Bangladesh, calling the attacks on student protesters "shocking and unacceptable". "There must be impartial, prompt and exhaustive…

HANOI: Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam's most powerful contemporary leader and architect of the country's largest anti-corruption campaign, died Friday at the age of 80, state media said. During Trong's 13 years as general secretary of the…

TEL AVIV: An explosion rumbled through the streets of central Tel Aviv early Friday morning after an apparent drone strike caused shards of shrapnel to rain down, injuring at least 10 people and leaving one dead, authorities said.…

DHAKA: Bangladesh students vowed Thursday to continue nationwide protests against civil service hiring rules, rebuffing an olive branch from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who pledged justice for seven killed in the demonstrations.…