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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the Bogibeel Bridge at a ceremony on Tuesday. This new bridge, which connects the north and south banks of the turbulent Brahmaputra river in…

American rapper Lil Pump has apologized on social media for racist remarks he made about Chinese people on Wednesday, reports Tencent Sports News. Lil Pump used the term "Ching Chong",…

An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died in government custody in New Mexico early Tuesday, U.S. immigration authorities said, marking the second death of an immigrant child in detention this month.…

Japan will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in order to resume commercial whale hunting in July 2019, the Japanese government said Wednesday. Under IWC rules, Japan's withdrawal will…

Queen Elizabeth II wove personal reflections into the latest edition of her annual Christmas message, saying she hoped her long life brought a measure of wisdom and noting her grandchildren's…

South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday held a groundbreaking ceremony to modernize and eventually connect railways and roads across the inter-Korean border. The ceremony…

Authorities have arrested a 29-year-old man suspected of spray-painting swastikas on U.S. President Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The LAPD says Jose Ortega of Los Angeles…

Rescue teams have been striving to reach isolated tsunami-hit areas in Indonesia, where more victims are believed to remain under the rubble. Meanwhile, the number of those displaced by the…

About 100 South Korean passengers boarded a train early Wednesday in Seoul station for a rare trip to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). They were given souvenir tickets…

U.S. President Donald Trump visited the U.S. troops in Iraq to celebrate Christmas, the official Iraqiya television reported on Wednesday. The state-run channel briefly said that Trump "denied any plans…