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NIAMEY: Nigeria has asked neighboring Niger for support in a week-old offensive against insurgent bases in its semi-desert frontier region, underlining moves toward West

GOMA, DR Congo: Nineteen people have been killed and 27 injured in fierce clashes between the army and M23 rebels in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the government said as fighting r

NEW DELHI: Visiting Premier Li Keqiang promised yesterday to open China’s vast domestic market wider to India and forge a “dynamic trade balance” to de

NEW DELHI: President Hamid Karzai held talks with Indian leaders yesterday, hoping to secure more military aid as he looks to beef up his security forces after internati

KABUL: A roadside bomb in western Afghanistan and clashes in the volatile south left 11 police officers dead, officials said yesterday.

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar: A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison yesterday — one of them to a life term — in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly

CAVITE, Philippines: The Philippines has protested the presence of a Chinese warship, two surveillance vessels and fishing boats off a shoal occupied by its military in the disputed Spratly Islands, i

KABUL: A suicide bomber dressed in a police uniform killed 14 people including a prominent provincial council chief yesterday in northern Afghanistan in an attack outsid

MANILA: The Philippines said yesterday that it would make “coordinated efforts” with Taiwan to look into the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman but stopped short of a joint investi

CHIANG MAI, Thailand: Fierce competition for water could trigger conflict unless nations cooperate to share the diminishing resource, leaders from Asia-Pacific nations w