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Source:Xinhua Russia and Japan have agreed to put together a working group on implementing joint projects on disputed Pacific islands, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. It said in…

Source:Xinhua Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena's office said on Monday that a conditional state of emergency would be declared in the island country from midnight Monday following the deadly blasts…

Source:Xinhua Top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong-un will soon pay a visit to Russia, Korean Central News Agency reported Tuesday. During the visit, which is at…

Source:Xinhua Over 500 people at Australia's Sydney Opera House were forced to evacuate the area Tuesday due to a major gas leak. With a 100-meter exclusion zone set up by…

Source:Xinhua Sri Lankan police evacuated a highly populated railway station in the capital Colombo on Tuesday after an abandoned parcel was found near the railway tracks. Police rushed to the…

Source:Xinhua The death toll from Monday's 6.1-magnitude earthquake that struck the Zambales province in the Philippine main Luzon Island has risen to 16, the government said on Tuesday. Ricardo Jalad,…

Source:Xinhua Singapore's Prime Minister's Office (PMO) made an announcement Tuesday over a cabinet reshuffle to promote Heng Swee Keat as the city-state's deputy prime minister starting from May 1. Heng…

Source:Xinhua New Zealand government created a special visa category on Tuesday for those directly impacted by the Christchurch terrorist attack and their families. The special visa category is named Christchurch…

The Sri Lankan government believes a local Islamist extremist group called National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) was behind deadly suicide bomb attacks that killed nearly 300 people, government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne…

Japanese prosecutors said Monday they have indicted Nissan's former chairman Carlos Ghosn with additional charges of breach of trust, with his alleged misconduct expanding outside Japan. The indictment was followed…