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Taiwan said Tuesday it had recalled its envoy to Japan in protest at the Japanese government`s purchase of disputed ...

The final preparations are under way for Sail Indonesia 2012, or Sail Morotai, which will be held in Indonesia`s ...

Iran and North Korea have signed an agreement to cooperate in science and technology, Iranian media reported on ...

Egypt`s President Mohamed Morsi, the country`s first civilian and Islamist head of state, will visit the United States ...

Iran is to host some 30 leaders, including those of India, Egypt and Cuba, at an August 30-31 summit of the ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a senior visiting Syrian minister on Tuesday that the regime`s current ...

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati called Tuesday on the security forces to put an end to the ongoing clashes in the ...

The South Korean and US military on Monday began an annual joint exercise to test defences against North Korea, a ...

Twenty-seven people have died since tropical storm Kai-Tak hit northern Vietnam on Friday, according to the National ...

The Democratic People`s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Sunday condemned the upcoming South Korea-U.S. annual joint exercises ...

Four shells fired from Syria landed on Jordanian territory on Sunday, injuring a Jordanian girl, said the Minister of ...

Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People`s Republic of Korea (DPRK), inspected a front-line artillery unit ...

A team of South Koreans Monday began a 230 kilometre (144 mile) relay swim from an eastern port to the Dokdo islands, ...

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak landed Friday on remote islands disputed with Japan, according to Japanese news ...

Suspected Kurdish militants attacked a Turkish military bus on its way to a naval base in the western province of ...