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A strong magnitude 6.0-earthquake hit the southern Philippines at dawn on Wednesday, damaging dozens of houses and sending people fleeing into the streets for safety, authorities said.

op US experts have expressed concern over Pakistan's decision to give death penalty to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav as they warned that Islamabad wants to send a "strong message" to India against isolating it on the world stage.

The draft resolution expresses "horror" at the reported use of chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhun and condemns the alleged attack on April 4.

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialised nations are expected to call Tuesday for a new international push to end the war in Syria, but are divided on whether to threaten new sanctions or other tough measures to pressure Russia over its su...

Robert Bentley, 74, pleaded guilty in an agreement with prosecutors to two misdemeanor campaign violations and is barred from seeking public office again.

The containers will be taken off and put on different wagons at the Belarus border, as the former Soviet Union countries use a wider rail gauge.

Sisi announced the "state of emergency for three months" in a defiant speech at the presidential palace after a meeting of the national defence council.

Gunfire erupted during a dispute between a former gym employee and a manager, leaving one person dead and two others seriously wounded at an upscale shopping mall, police said.

Donald Trump's five-year-old granddaughter floored Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan with her impeccable Mandarin skills, reciting a Chinese folk song and a poetry for them.

The US airstrikes this week were aimed at a Syrian air base, but almost certainly got the attention of another adversary — North Korea.

China claims most of the sea, including waters and rocks close to the shores of neighbours and has been building artificial islands and installing weapons on them, including on some reefs in the Spratly chain that are also claimed by Manila.

The US-China economic relationship and trade will be the key topics of discussions in the much-anticipated meeting between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Thursday, the White House has said.

President Donald Trump has removed chief strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council, reversing a controversial early decision to give Bannon access to the high-level meetings.

Sunday's razor-thin election win by ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno bucked the trend of right-wing electoral victories in South America following 15 years of leftist domination.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party won nearly half of the seats contested in by-elections on Sunday, the first vote since it swept to power a year ago and an early indication of support for her administration amid increased fighting with ethnic armed...

Air strikes by the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group have likely "unintentionally" killed 229 civilians since the offensive began in 2014, according to US Central Command.