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The 55-kilometer crossing, which includes a snaking road bridge and underwater tunnel, links Hong Kongs Lantau island to Zhuhai and the gambling enclave of Macau, across the waters of the Pearl River Estuary. (Photo: AFP)

China launches world's longest sea bridge connecting Hong Kong,...

Xi announced the bridge officially open at a ceremony attended by Hong Kong's and Macau's city leaders at a new port...

23 Oct 2018 11:10 AM IST

The government said the train had been carrying 366 people, and the Central News Agency said more than 30 were still trapped on board. (Photo: AP)

18 killed in Taiwan after train derails and flips over, 160 injured

Several carriages were overturned in the crash, which occurred in Yilan County near the coast on a line popular among...

21 Oct 2018 7:11 PM IST

The Helsinki summit between Presidents Trump and Putin on July 16 reinforced these trends.

Withdrawal from nuclear arms deal 'dangerous step' for US: Russia

Trump confirmed that US will pull out of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty that it had signed with Russia.

21 Oct 2018 3:12 PM IST

Rescuers at coal mining site in Shizuishan in northwestern Chinas Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on September 28, 2016. Twenty-two people are trapped in a coal mine in China after a rock burst destroyed part of a mining tunnel, officials said Sunday.(Photo: Representative | AP)

Rock burst destroys coal mining tunnel in China, 22 trapped

More than 300 people were working inside mine at the time of incident. Most have been successfully lifted to safety...

21 Oct 2018 1:34 PM IST

An Afghan policeman searches voters before casting their votes, with many voters having to queue for hours. (Photo: AFP)

Nearly 170 casualties as violence rocks chaotic Afghan elections

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for blast, but Taliban said earlier it had carried out more than 300...

20 Oct 2018 7:50 PM IST

Around 70,000 security forces have been deployed to protect polling centres across the war-torn country. (Photo: AP)

Multiple blasts rock Kabul polling stations, govt says no casualties

Interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi confirmed another two explosions near polling centres.

20 Oct 2018 3:27 PM IST

Widely seen as a bulwark against the Taliban insurgency, Raziqs death has left a dangerous security vacuum that one observer said could lead to a meltdown in the south, the Taliban movements birthplace. (Photo: AFP)

Controversial Afghan cop, 'torturer-in-chief', killed in Taliban...

Raziq, 39, who controlled province with an iron hand, was admired by many ordinary Afghans and hated by the Taliban in...

19 Oct 2018 3:03 PM IST

Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at a cybersecurity conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 6, 2018. Putin said its important to develop common cybersecurity standards that take into account interests of all nations. (Sergei Chirikov/Pool Photo via AP)

Result of globalisation,' says Putin on Crimean school shooting

Russian President Vladimir Putin said everything started with the tragic events in schools in the US.

19 Oct 2018 2:43 PM IST

Simultaneously, we have got past the single biggest impediment to initiating serious negotiations in Afghanistan the absence of direct talks between the US and the Taliban.

Afghans set to vote despite Taliban threats, corruption

Many of those Afghans brave enough to defy the death threats hope to vote in a new generation of younger and...

19 Oct 2018 2:37 PM IST

Relatives of Imran Ali convicted of killing eight children avoid media in a van while arrivIng to receive his body at a prison in Lahore on Wednesday. (Photo: AP)

Pak's serial killer executed for rape, murder of minors

Imran Ali was arrested after he raped, killed 8-yr-old Zainab Ansari.

18 Oct 2018 4:38 AM IST

The Army operates three regiments equipped with various configurations of BrahMos land attack cruise missiles which has been operationalised since 2007. (Photo: File)

Pakistan may buy China's supersonic missile 'better than' BrahMos:...

The test conducted on Monday at a discreet location in North China verified the launch, power and flight control...

17 Oct 2018 8:25 PM IST

Rescuers carry an injured victim of a blast at at a college in the city of Kerch on October 17, 2018. - Thirteen people were killed and 50 more wounded, most of them teenagers, after a blast tore into a college canteen in Russian-annexed Crimea in what Moscow called a terrorist attack. (Photo: AFP)

18 killed as gunmen storm into college in Crimea, set off bomb

Law enforcement officials said they were treating the incident, in which many of the victims were teenage pupils, as a...

17 Oct 2018 6:48 PM IST