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Tokyo: North Korea on Thursday fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) designed to hit targets on the other side of the world and also Japan.It flew for about 760km and reached a height of around 1,920 km, said South...

London: North Korea is deliberately ramping up tensions with its neighbors. Analysts think it is building to something bigger, such as a nuclear test, or a full long-range ballistic missile test out into the Pacific, or both, the BBC...

Seoul: North and South Korea fired a number of missiles into waters near each other's coasts in a marked escalation of hostilities on Wednesday.The North launched its most missiles in a single day - at least 23 - including...

Manila: Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos on Wednesday placed four regions of the Southeast Asian country under a state of calamity due to the severe tropical storm Nalgene.Marcos signed the document to put Calabarzon, Bicol Region, Western Visayas, and...

Seoul: South Korea's military on Wednesday denounced North Korea's launch of its first missile into an area close to the South's territorial waters since the division of the peninsula more than seven decades ago, calling it an "intolerable" act.Earlier...

Tokyo: Japan has begun rolling out a partnership certificate scheme to same-sex couples -- allowing them to be treated as married couples for certain public services for the first time, but falling short of marriage equality.Some hope this may...

Pyongyang: North Korea has threatened the US with "powerful follow-up measures" if it does not stop conducting joint military drills with South Korea.Washington and Seoul on Monday began one of their largest combined military air drills, which will end...

Colombo: President Ranil Wickremesinghe has described his accession to power in crisis-hit Sri Lanka as “taking over the titanic after it hit the iceberg”.His remark was made at the 32nd Annual General Meeting of the Sri Lanka Tea Factory...

Moscow: President Vladimir Putin has said Russia is suspending -- but not ending -- its participation in a deal that allows safe passage to vessels carrying Ukrainian grain exports.Moscow pulled out of the UN-brokered agreement on Saturday, alleging that...

Dhaka: The visiting Permanent Secretary-designate of Thailand, H.E. Mr. Sarun Charoensuwan paid a courtesy call on Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr. A K Abdul Momen MP, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today.During the call on, both dignitaries exchanged warm...