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A TOP rights group accused security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo of killing dozens of people in protests over hotly contested legislation to be voted on Thursday that would extend

INDONESIAN Navy divers on Thursday reached the crashed AirAsia plane’s fuselage and retrieved six bodies, an official said. Divers managed to enter the fuselage after days of attempts frustrated by strong currents

UKRAINE’S military on Thursday said days of attacks by pro-Russian insurgents had forced its soldiers to pull out of the main part of a devastated airport that has become the symbolic prize

THE Pakistani prime minister has cancelled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos to deal with a severe petrol shortage at home, officials and state media said Thursday. State media

MALAYSIA said Thursday it had formally asked Australia to hand over a former police commando sentenced to hang for the murder of a Mongolian model in a sensational political scandal linked to

OIL prices edged lower in Asia Thursday as dealers await a much-anticipated European Central Bank (ECB) policy meeting and the release of the latest US supply report, analysts said. US benchmark West

AT least 23 people been killed in Somalia in clan-related violence caused by a land dispute, officials and elders said. The clashes between armed militia from two groups broke out around the

BARACK Obama arrives in India this weekend for an unprecedented second visit by a serving US president, the honoured guest of his new friend Narendra Modi who was a Washington outcast only

SENIOR officials from 21 countries are gathering in London to discuss efforts to tackle the militant group Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq. Those taking part in the one-day conference include

CHILE has announced a fresh investigation into the death in 1973 of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda. Government spokesman Francisco Ugas said there were indications that he could have been poisoned. Tests