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Tokyo Won’t See Rio-Style Golf Pull-Outs, Says Park
Olympic golf champion Park In-Bee on Tuesday said she didn't expect Tokyo 2020 to be hit by serial withdrawals, after...
Read morePacked Thai Prisons Need Urgent Reform
Thai prisons are massively overcrowded with some inmates forced to sleep sideways, a rights group said Tuesday, urging reform in...
Read moreAsiacell To Offer Free Access To Wikipedia In Iraq
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, said Tuesday that telecoms operator Asiacell will offer free access to the...
Read moreBurkina Jihadists Claim Attack On Police Positions
A night attack on two police positions in Burkina Faso was claimed by jihadists who killed 12 soldiers in the...
Read moreNorth Korea Diplomat In China Amid Coal Cut Tension
A senior North Korean diplomat arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for talks with government officials, the first known visit since...
Read moreEgypt Lawmaker Says His Expulsion Is Warning To Opposition
An Egyptian lawmaker who was one of the few dissenting voices in parliament said Tuesday his expulsion over accusations of...
Read moreBangladesh Starts Head Count For Rohingya Relocation
Bangladesh authorities have began a census of Rohingya refugees living in the country's southeast as part of a controversial move...
Read morePhilippines’ Duterte Sorry For Dead German Hostage
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte apologised on Tuesday for failing to save an elderly German hostage who was beheaded by Islamic...
Read moreIsraeli Police Begin Evacuating West Bank Settler Homes
Israeli police on Tuesday began removing residents and protesters from nine West Bank settler homes set to be demolished under...
Read morePro-Islamic State Militants Re-Emerge As Philippine Nightmare
With ultra-fast boats, millions in ransom payments and sympathetic locals, pro-Islamic State militants on lawless southern Philippines islands who beheaded...
Read moreTurkey Says Wants To Be Part of Raqa Operation
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday Ankara wanted to work with its allies to capture the Islamic State bastion...
Read moreSyria Ex-Qaeda Says Opposition Leaders Must ‘step Aside’
The head of Al-Qaeda's former Syrian branch said weekend suicide attacks in third city Homs were a message for opposition...
Read moreIndonesian Islamist Leader Testifies At Jakarta Governor Trial
The head of an Indonesian Muslim hardline group insisted Tuesday that Jakarta's Christian governor had committed blasphemy as he gave...
Read moreTwo Women To Be Charged With Kim Murder
Two women arrested over the nerve agent assassination of Kim Jong Nam are to be charged with his murder, Malaysia...
Read moreKohli Will Be Back ‘bigger and Stronger’, Says Starc
Mitchell Starc may have won the opening duel against Indian skipper Virat Kohli by getting the star batsman out for...
Read moreIndia Needs More Inclusive Growth
India's rapid economic growth has lifted 140 million people out of poverty in the past decade but many of its...
Read moreIndia’s Tata Settles $1bn Dispute With Japan’s NTT Docomo
Indian salt-to-steel conglomerate Tata said Tuesday it had reached agreement with NTT Docomo to pay the Japanese mobile carrier $1.18...
Read moreTo Secure Mosul, Iraq Army Makes Desert Push With US Help
Much of the fighting for west Mosul will be at close quarters, but Iraq's battle against the Islamic State group...
Read moreAt Least 160 Killed In Clashes On Myanmar-China Border
At least 160 people have died in around three months of clashes between the military and ethnic armed groups in...
Read moreCivilians Flee Mosul Fighting As Iraq Forces Battle IS
Several hundred civilians fled through the desert on Tuesday to escape fighting against jihadists in the Mosul area, reaching an...
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