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Indonesia kicked off one of the world's biggest one-day elections Wednesday, pitting president Joko Widodo against ex-general Prabowo Subianto in a race to lead the Muslim-majority nation. More than 190…

Over 30 people died and many injured in unseasonal rains accompanied with dust storm in several Indian states on Tuesday night, local media reports said on Wednesday. As many as…

The first shipment of humanitarian aid from the Red Cross arrived in Venezuela on Tuesday, Venezuela's Health Minister Carlos Alvarado confirmed. "This first shipment is very important for Venezuela because…

Far beyond the fields surrounding Kunming in southwestern China, where pieces of Japanese bombers remain imbedded in the earth today, John Yee's impact on world history will be long remembered.…

UN educational, cultural and scientific body, UNESCO's Director-General Andrey Azoulay on Tuesday proposed to help in rebuilding the medieval cathedral of Notre Dame of Paris, proposing experts and special mission…

The Moscow City Court sentenced Frode Berg, a retired Norwegian border guard, to 14 years in a high security prison for spying, his lawyer said Tuesday. "Berg said he would…

A major China-Myanmar oil and gas project is celebrating its 2nd anniversary, with authorities suggesting the people of Myanmar have been benefiting a lot from the massive project. The China-Myanmar…

The huge blaze that has devastated Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris has been extinguished, the city's fire service announced on Tuesday, around 15 hours after it first broke out. "The whole…

Sudan is willing to lift Sudan-China relations to a new high through joint efforts, Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Military Council Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan said in Khartoum on Monday. Sudan values the…

A dog found swimming more than 220 kilometers (135 miles) from shore by workers on an oil rig crew in the Gulf of Thailand has been returned safely to land.…