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DHAKA: Hundreds of Bangladesh factory workers who fell sick in recent weeks could have been struck down by a mysterious illness described as a type of “mass hysteria,” officials said ye

DAVAO, Philippines: Communist insurgents killed five civilians and kidnapped five soldiers in the southern Philippines yesterday in the latest of a series of violent acts following the collapse of

LONDON: The chief foreign correspondent for Rupert Murdoch’s top-selling British tabloid The Sun has been charged for allegedly paying public officials for informa

LONDON: A British stunt double for actress Angelina Jolie sued News Corp., alleging the media company hired private investigators to access her mobile phone voice-mail messages to seek information

NEW DELHI: India’s embattled ruling Congress party geared yesterday for next year’s elections with a Cabinet reshuffle, boosted by a bitter split in the oppo

SINGAPORE: Singapore urged Indonesia yesterday to take “urgent measures” to tackle its forest fires as severe air pollution blown from Sumatra island choked

KABUL: An Afghan police chief survived a suicide car bomb attack on his convoy that wounded three officers early yesterday, officials said.

MANILA: Philippine authorities said yesterday they had abandoned hope of finding alive seven people missing from a ferry, which sank last week with dozens on board, afte

WASHINGTON: Rogue intelligence technician Edward Snowden said yesterday that the US government would not be able to halt his revelations about its secret surveillance programs.

ROME: More than 1,200 migrants reached Italy over the weekend after attempting the perilous sea passage from Africa in flimsy vessels, the Italian coast guard said yesterday.