Dozens of Hong Kong triad members have been arrested in a series of operations
Targeting gangs using high-powered speedboats to smuggle contraband to the Chinese mainland, police said Monday. Smuggling has been a mainstay
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The United States said on Sunday the first face-to-face meeting between senior US and Taliban officials
The hardline group retook power in Afghanistan was “candid and professional” and that the US side reiterated that the Taliban
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China and India on Monday Blamed Each Other for the Failure of high-level talks to ease Tensions
Out after no progress in Himalayan border talks, a disputed Himalayan border between the nuclear-armed neighbours. The strategically important Galwan
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A fire erupted at key fuel storage facilities in southern Lebanon Monday
An AFP photographer and the National News Agency said, sparking alarm as the country grapples with dire hydrocarbon shortages. “A
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Iraqis voted Sunday in parliamentary elections held months ahead of schedule as a concession to a youth-led popular uprising against corruption and mismanagement
The voting was marked by widespread apathy and a boycott by many of the young activists who thronged the streets of
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Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme who was accused of smuggling technology to Iran
North Korea and Libya, has died at 85, authorities said Sunday. The atomic scientist, who spent the last years of
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Lebanon’s electricity grid was back online Sunday after the army supplied fuel to two key power stations that had run out
A minister said, ending almost a day of total blackout. The Deir Ammar and Zahrani plants ground to a halt Saturday,
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A plane carrying a group of parachute jumpers crashed after takeoff in the Russian region of Tatarstan early on Sunday
16 people and injuring six, the Emergencies Ministry said At a height of 70 metres, the pilots reported that their
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A Franciscan nun from Colombia kidnapped by jihadists in Mali more than four years ago has been freed, Mali’s presidency said
Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez was taken hostage on February 7, 2017 in southern Mali near the border with Burkina Faso where she had been
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Pro-EU Tens of thousands of Poles rallied on Sunday
In defence of their country’s EU membership, after Poland’s top court last week issued a landmark ruling against the primacy
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