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Chinas President Xi Jinping speaks during the opening session of the 20th Chinese Communist Partys Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16, 2022. - The effect was achieved through varying the lens focal length. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP)

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Xi warns China will not renounce use of force to unify Taiwan

Chinese president vows to modernise army

16 Oct 2022 6:23 PM IST

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Full control over Hong Kong achieved: Xi Jinping at Communist party...

Xi said China has also waged a major struggle against Taiwan separatism and is determined and able to oppose territorial...

16 Oct 2022 12:01 PM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Photo:PTI)

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What to expect from China-'s party congress today

The proceedings surrounding the event are shrouded in secrecy, as is typical in China-'s authoritarian one-party state

15 Oct 2022 4:40 PM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit via video, from Beijing on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021 (Li Xueren/Xinhua via AP)

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China censors rare anti-Xi protest ahead of Communist Party congress

BEIJING: China's internet censors removed on Friday virtually all references to reports of a rare protest in Beijing...

14 Oct 2022 2:07 PM IST

In April, Kim said North Korea could preemptively use nuclear weapons if threatened, saying they would never be confined to the single mission of war deterrent. (AP)

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N. Korea fires another missile, flies warplanes near border

SEOUL: North Korea early on Friday launched a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters and flew warplanes...

14 Oct 2022 8:06 AM IST

Pakistans health ministry had sought permission to procure mosquito nets from India last month. (File photo/AFP)

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Flood-hit Pakistan to purchase over 6 million mosquito nets from India

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's health ministry has approved the purchase of over 6 million mosquito nets from India, as the...

11 Oct 2022 5:56 PM IST

$Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 9 blamed Ukrainian secret services for the huge blast a day earlier that ripped through Russias Crimea bridge, which he described as a \terrorist act\. (Photo: AFP)$ World

Putin vows more -'severe-' attacks after Russian missiles batter...

KYIV: Russian forces launched a barrage of fatal bombardments across Ukraine early on Monday and President Vladimir...

10 Oct 2022 6:46 PM IST

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a missile test at an undisclosed location in North Korea, as taken sometime between Sept. 25 and Oct. 9. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

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North Korea confirms nuke missiles tests to -'wipe out-' enemies

Korean Central News Agency said the missile tests were in response to recent naval drills between U.S. and South Korean...

10 Oct 2022 11:36 AM IST

Mahsa Amini, who was detained last Tuesday after Irans so-called morality police found fault with her headscarf. (Photo: Twitter)

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Iran says Mahsa Amini died of illness rather than -'blows-'

TEHRAN: The death of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini was caused by illness rather than blows or beatings, said an...

7 Oct 2022 5:13 PM IST

This frame grab from video footage by Thai PBS made available via AFPTV and taken on October 6, 2022 shows medical staff carrying a stretcher out of an ambulance in the northern Thai province of Nong Bua Lam Phu, where a former policeman shot dead at least 30 people in a nursery. - A former police officer stormed a nursery in Thailand on October 6, shooting dead at least 30 people, most of them children, before killing himself and his family. (Photo: AFP)

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Thai PM orders probe into -'horrifying-' nursery mass shooting

BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha on Thursday ordered an urgent probe after a former police officer...

6 Oct 2022 6:06 PM IST

This handout from the Facebook page of Thailands Central Investigation Bureau shows a picture of former policeman Panya Khamrab, who is believed to have killed at least 30 people in a nursery in the northern Thai province of Nong Bua Lam Phu. (AFP)

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Thailand mass shooting kills 34 including 22 children at day-care...

There were 22 kids among the victims of the suspected gunman, who police said had been discharged from the service for...

6 Oct 2022 2:34 PM IST

This photo provided on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, by the North Korean government shows a missile test from railway in North Pyongan Province, North Korea (Korea News Service via AP)

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North Korea sends missile soaring over Japan in escalation

SEOUL: North Korea on Tuesday fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan, its neighbours said, escalating...

4 Oct 2022 8:45 AM IST