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Ko Wen-je,  a presidential contender, was indicted Thursday on corruption charges. The 65-year-old is accused of accepting half a million dollars in bribes involving real estate dealing during his term…

Syria’s new rebel-led authorities say supporters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad have killed 14 interior ministry troops in an “ambush” in the west of the country. They say 10 other…

  A Russian-born U.S. citizen already imprisoned in Russia on a bribery conviction has been handed a second 15-year jail term for espionage, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. A Moscow…

South Korea’s main opposition party said it will introduce a bill to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo on Thursday and hold a vote on Friday, a move that could deepen…

Russia unleashed missile and drone strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and cities in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called an “inhuman” Christmas Day assault, with US President Joe Biden condemning the…

China has approved the construction of what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, kicking off an ambitious project on the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau that could affect…

  Ukraine’s military said Thursday it shot down 20 of the 31 drones that Russian forces launched in overnight attacks. The intercepts took place over the Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and…

Pakistan’s Foreign Office on Thursday confirmed that Pakistan had carried out an intelligence-based operation in Afghanistan based on “threats to Pakistani citizens’ security”. The FO spokesperson’s statement — the first…

The Palestinian group Hamas and Israel traded blame over their failure to conclude a ceasefire agreement despite progress reported by both sides in the past days. Hamas said that Israel…

An Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday was downed by a Russian air defence system, four sources in Azerbaijan with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters. An…