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Eight people have been killed, 5 persons went missing and 9 others wounded, after a landslide triggered by a flash flood hit a village at Palopo district of South Sulawesi province Sunday evening, head of crisis center of the Health Ministry Rustam Pakaya said here on Monday.

South Korea and Turkmenistan agreed to sign a double-taxation avoidance pact in a bid to promote bilateral investment and other exchanges, the Finance Ministry said on Monday, Xinhua reported.

A strong undersea earthquake killed two people and damaged buildings on the remote island of Sumbawa in central Indonesia, officials said Monday, AP reported.

Suspected al-Qaida-linked militants in the southern Philippines beheaded a schoolteacher after kidnapping him last month, officials said Monday, AP reported.

Three people were confirmed dead and another two slightly injured after an old house collapsed Sunday afternoon in Liuzhou city of southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local government said on Monday morning, Xinhua reported.

A blast outside the headquarters of San Miguel Corp in the Philippine capital early on Monday caused minor damage but no one was injured, police said, Reuters reported.

Thousands of people have protested on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa demanding the removal of a US military base there, BBC reported.

Thousands of Buddhist monks and supporters welcomed Tibet's exiled spiritual leader on Sunday to a remote Indian region also claimed by China, a trip that has renewed tensions between the Asian giants, Reuters reported.

As Pakistan's army plows ahead with its offensive in South Waziristan, its success is at risk because the government has yet to come up with a plan to run and rebuild the lawless territory so that the Taliban and al-Qaida don't re-emerge. The Pakistani army launched a ground offensive in the Afghan border region in mid-October, pitting some 30,000 ...

A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in market in Pakistan's northwest crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday, killing 12 people, including a mayor who once supported but had turned against the Taliban, officials said.

Afghan president pledged Sunday that there would be no place for corrupt officials in his new administration a ' a demand made by Washington and its international partners as they ponder sending more troops to confront the Taliban and shore up his government.

General George Casey, Army chief of staff, on Sunday became the latest U.S. military official to advocate sending more troops to Afghanistan as President Barack Obama nears a decision on a new strategy.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who as finance minister in the 90s initiated liberalisation, today said his government would steadily pursue reforms to feed economic growth, while withdrawing the fiscal stimulus by next year.

Maintaining public support is "crucially important" to the success of the international military mission in Afghanistan, the senior British commander in the country has warned.

Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall.

Pakistani soldiers killed 12 militants in gunbattles over the past day, officials said Saturday, as government forces pressed on with their offensive in the mountainous Taliban sanctuary of South Waziristan.

China is offering to abolish import duties on some commodities from Africa and make sure Chinese exports to the continent are safe as part of a package to boost already thriving economic ties, China's commerce minister said in an article published Saturday.

US President Barack Obama has delayed his visit to Japan next week by one day, a Japanese foreign ministry official said Saturday, following a deadly shooting at a military base in Texas.

Investigators are searching for the motive behind a mass shooting at a sprawling US army base in Texas, in which an army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people.

India has provoked China's fury by allowing the Dalai Lama to visit a remote town near the disputed Tibetan border.