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KUALA LUMPUR:  Aid agencies are feeding life-saving peanut paste to thousands of starving Rohingya children who fled violence in Myanmar, amid warnings of...

DENGZHOU:  In the final hour of his life, Zheng Dexing, 21, checked into a hotel and told family and friends in a flurry...

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh:  Doctors treating some of the 429,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in recent weeks have seen...

Maungdaw, Myanmar:  Rohingya militants on Wednesday denied the Myanmar army's allegations that they had massacred scores of Hindu villagers, whose bodies soldiers displayed...

Arbil, Iraq: Iraq's Kurds announced a massive "yes" vote for independence on Wednesday following a referendum that has incensed Baghdad and sparked international...

Vatican City:  Pope Francis on Wednesday urged people across the world to open their arms to migrants, as Catholic charity Caritas launched its...

Washington: US President Donald Trump won't be part of the group testing the expanded character limit for messages on the Twitter the social...

Kampala:  Uganda's parliament on Wednesday took the first step towards scrapping the presidential age limit that would allow long-standing ruler Yoweri Museveni to...

Berlin:  Politicians and the press across Europe broadly welcomed Emmanuel Macron's calls for a revival of the European project, although EU powerhouse Germany...

Paris:  Emmanuel Macron will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday, days after the French president set out plans for ambitious EU...

Arbil, Iraq: More than 92 percent of Iraqi Kurds voted for independence in a referendum, according to the first official results announced on...

Beirut: Lebanon's and Egypt's national carriers will halt flights to the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital Arbil this week at the request of the...

Brussels: The EU unveiled plans Wednesday to take at least 50,000 refugees directly from Africa, the Middle East and Turkey to discourage migrant...

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi demanded Wednesday that this week's vote on independence for the autonomous Kurdish region be annulled. "The referendum...

Manila: Prolonged fighting by Filipino militants supporting the Islamic State group has put the brakes on the Philippines' $10 billion outsourcing industry, one...

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s Civil Aviation Authority on Wednesday requested foreign airlines suspend flights to the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) area by Friday. The move...

JERUSALEM: Palestine joined Interpol as a member state on Wednesday, a move opposed by Israel, in a vote at the international police organisation's...

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines: Four people were injured early Wednesday when two successive explosions rocked Maguindanao province in the southern Philippines. Captain Arvin Encinas,...