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Bangkok: A Saudi woman being held at Bangkok airport appealed for asylum and for other passengers to help protest her looming deportation, in desperate tweets from the hotel room where she barricaded

New Delhi: The ruling and opposition parties in India condemned US President Donald Trump’s comments this week mocking New Delhi’s role in war-torn Afghanistan, where the South Asian country has invested billions

DHAKA: Sheikh Hasina will be sworn in as the Prime Minister for the fourth time at Bangabhaban – the official residence and office of the Bangladesh President. Besides Hasina, other cabinet ministers

WASHINGTON: The United States issued a pre-emptive warning to Iran against pursuing three planned space rocket launches that it said would violate a UN Security Council resolution because they use ballistic missile

Washington: US President Donald Trump said he wants a “great relationship” with Pakistan and is looking forward to meeting the new leadership in that country. Trump told his Cabinet colleagues in the

Moscow: The death toll from the collapse of a Russian apartment building has risen to 37 after more bodies were discovered by crews searching the huge pile of concrete rubble. State news

Islamabad: Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif needs to clean up his own mess, quite literally. Lodged in the country’s Kot Lakhpat jail, he has been denied an orderly and has been instructed

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that he has received a “great letter” from Kim Jong-un and is looking forward to meet the North Korean leader for a second time in

KABUL: Taliban fighters detonated explosives planted in a tunnel below an Afghan military outpost, killing five soldiers, a police official said. Six soldiers were woun­ded in the attack in the Maiwand district

Beijing: China is building the first of four “most advanced” naval warships for its “all-weather ally” Pakistan as part of a major bilateral arms deal to ensure among other things “balance of