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LONDON, May 1  -- Downing Street said Wednesday in a statement that Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson had been sacked by the Prime Minister for "unauthorized disclosure of information". A Downing Street spokesperson said, "The Prime Minister has this evening asked Gavin Williamson to leave the Government, having...

BEIJING, April 29 -- A joint military exercise with the Chinese and Russian navies has begun in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, marking the second time that both navies have met at the port of Qingdao since the launch of the annual drill mechanism in 2012. The Chinese PLA Navy sent a warm welcome to the...

Phnom Penh , April 30 – Interior Ministry spokesperson Khieu Sopheak said Tuesday that the USD 3.5 million confiscated from three Chinese at Phnom Penh International Airport now belongs to the state-property thus preserved at the National Bank of Cambodia. Phnom Penh municipal court investigating judge Ros Samedy,...

Phnom Penh , April 30 – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation, speaking in a meeting on Tuesday at the Peace Palace Phnom Penh. Aung San Suu Kyi informed the Premier that the three-day visit to Cambodia is her first...

BERLIN, April 24 -- An unexploded World War II bomb was discovered and later defused on Wednesday in Cologne, forcing 2,500 residents to evacuate, according to the official twitter account of the city of Cologne. The bomb was discovered Wednesday afternoon and an area of 500 meters in radius had been cordoned...

TRIPOLI, April 25 -- Libya's UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez Serraj denied calling for ceasefire between the government and the east-based army, as both parties continue fighting for control over the capital Tripoli, the government spokesperson said Wednesday. "The Head of the Presidential Council of the Government...

BEIJING, April 25 -- China will further promote international space cooperation to make concrete contributions to the realization of sustainable development goals set by the United Nations, a senior official with the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on Wednesday. China is to build a new type of...

COLOMBO, April 25 -- Following Sunday's terror attacks in Sri Lanka, the police said 16 more suspects were arrested in special operations conducted in the early hours of Thursday and one of those taken into custody is suspected to be linked to a terrorist group. The police said 76 suspects have been taken into...

SYDNEY, April 23 -- For almost eight decades, the final resting place of the SS Iron Crown has remained one of the great Australian maritime mysteries. But on Tuesday, Australia's peak science body the CSIRO, along with the Australian National Maritime Museum have finally uncovered the watery grave of the ill-fated...

MANILA, April 23 -- 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, the executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), said...

KATHMANDU, April 18 -- Nepal's first ever satellite was launched into space on Thursday morning, Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli confirmed here. Nepali Prime Minister Oli expressed happiness over Nepal's entry into the global space age while thanking all those involved in developing the first ever Nepali satellite. The...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 -- Malaysian government said Wednesday that it will sell the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB)-linked superyacht Equanimity to Genting Malaysia at the price of 126 million U.S. dollars. Malaysia's Attorney-General Tommy Thomas said in a statement that the payment will be received by the...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 -- A Malaysian court started hearings Wednesday on the corruption charges against former Prime Minister Najib Razak after previous delays. Najib showed up at the high court in Kuala Lumpur for the hearings on the seven charges, including criminal breach of trust, money laundering and abuse...

NANJING, April 1 -- Chinese scientists have bred a new strain of rice with both high disease resistance and high yield, Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) announced. A research team led by Professor Yang Donglei of the State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement and NAU in eastern China's...

UNITED NATIONS, April 1 -- The world's population is projected to reach around 9.7 billion in 2050 and rise further to about 11 billion by the end of the century, according to a UN report released Monday. "The world's population, estimated at 7.7 billion in 2019, continues to grow, albeit at a decreasing rate....

SYDNEY, March 29 -- Flight services are returning to normal at Sydney Airport on Friday after its air traffic control tower was evacuated shortly before noon. Airservices Australia, the body which oversees the nation's air traffic control operations, previously posted to social media platform Twitter that the...

MEXICO CITY, March 28 -- Mexican authorities on Thursday raised the threat level of the Popocatepetl volcano following changes in its pattern of explosions, which have resulted in increased expulsion of incandescent material. The Volcanic Alert Semaphore went up from Yellow Phase 2 to Yellow Phase 3, or from...

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 25 -- Brazil's ex-president Michel Temer and seven of his close aides were ordered to be released from prison on Monday, following their arrest last week on corruption charges. Temer, his former Minister of Mines and Energy Moreira Franco and six others, were granted release by a federal...

ANKARA, March 24 -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey will take the issue of U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights to the United Nations. U.S. President Donald Trump's statement on Golan Heights is a "gift" to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead...

BANGKOK, March 25 -- Preliminary results in the Thai election show the two leading parties to be neck-and-neck. It was expected to be a two-horse race, between Pheu Thai, the party founded by exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and the political arm of the military junta, Palang Pracharat. What...