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Hospitals Overwhelmed As Sri Lanka Dengue Toll Nears 300
Sri Lanka announced Monday it was intensifying its war on dengue fever, with schools to shut across the island to help...
N. Korean Defectors Down As Border Tightened
The number of North Koreans escaping to the South declined sharply in the first half of this year as Pyongyang...
Culls, Poultry Transport Ban As S. Korea Fights Bird Flu Outbreak
South Korea has imposed a temporary nationwide ban on poultry transportation as it struggles to contain a fresh...
Qatari Hunting Party Kidnapped In Iraq Freed
A Qatari hunting party kidnapped in southern Iraq in 2015 has been freed and was being handed over to a Qatari...
Zimbabwe Schools Accept Goats For Fees
Parents in Zimbabwe who cannot afford school fees can offer livestock such as goats or sheep as payment, a government...
South Korea Set To Let Women’s Football Team Play In North
South Korea plans to allow its women's football team to make a rare visit to the North next week, it said Thursday,...
South Korea’s Sunken Sewol Ferry Starts Final Journey
South Korea's sunken Sewol ferry was sailed away from its watery grave Friday, beginning its final journey nearly three...
South Korea Prepares To Move Sunken Sewol Ferry To Port
Salvage operators were preparing to move South Korea's sunken Sewol ferry on to another vessel to transfer it to port...
South Korea Raises Sunken Sewol Ferry
South Korea´s sunken Sewol ferry emerged from the waters Thursday, nearly three years after it went down with the loss...
Jihadist Tunnels Save Assyrian Winged Bulls of Mosul
Crawl through a labyrinth of narrow tunnels in near total darkness and suddenly they appear: two great winged bulls...
India’s Top Diplomat To Visit US After Kansas Killing
New Delhi's top diplomat will travel to Washington this week for talks with US officials as anger grows over the death...
Japan Zoo Culls 57 Monkeys Carrying ‘invasive’ Genes
A Japanese zoo has culled 57 native snow monkeys by lethal injection after finding that they carried genes of an...
No Deal With EDC To Keep Property At Our Facility – RigWorld
RigWorld Services Limited has refuted allegations concerning the transportation of some items from Enterprise...
2 Facing Extradition From France
Two of China’s most-wanted fugitives, suspected of economic crimes, will be extradited from France to face trial at...