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SL President suspends police chief over blasts, names successor

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has suspended police chief Pujith Jayasundara, his office announced on...

Sri Lanka bars Muslim women from wearing veils in public after Easter bombings

Sirisena said he was using emergency powers to ban any form of face covering in...

Most Sri Lanka Islamist radicals killed or arrested: PM Ranil Wickremesinghe

Sri Lankan forces have killed or arrested most of the radical Islamists linked to the...

Indonesia president says may reshuffle cabinet before second term

Indonesian President Joko Widodo is considering reshuffling his cabinet before he is sworn in for...

‘Only the people can change the prime minister’: Mahathir tells Johor crown prince

Only the people can change the prime minister through the ballot box, Dr Mahathir Mohamad...

Poor sex education, social exclusion leading mums in Malaysia to abandon babies

Every year, over 100 newborns are found abandoned in rivers, mosques, toilets and rubbish dumps...

Xinjiang crackdown at the heart of China's Belt and Road

Traders travel freely through the bustling Khorgos special economic zone that straddles the Kazakhstan-China border,...

Lawyer confirms Parvez Musharraf will return to Pakistan on May 1

Pakistan's former military dictator Pervez Musharraf, who is facing high treason case, is likely to...

Two Koreas mark Moon-Kim summit anniversary with different tones

North and South Korea Saturday struck different notes as they marked the first anniversary of...

Xi aims to soothe Belt and Road fears

Chinese President Xi Jinping sought Friday to bat away concerns about his ambitious Belt and...

15 killed, including 6 children in raids at IS hideout in Sri Lanka

Six children and three women were among 15 people killed when suicide bombers blew themselves...

The mastermind behind SL's Easter bombings -- Black Sheep

Mohamed Hashim Mohamed Zahran was 12 years old when he began his studies at the...

Japan's incoming imperial couple offers the nation something new

Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito and his wife, Masako, represent a lot of firsts for an...

Sri Lanka troops join hunt for bomb attack suspects

Sri Lanka deployed thousands of additional troops countrywide overnight to help police hunt for suspects...

Johor water treatment plant shut indefinitely due to high ammonia readings

A water treatment plant at Simpang Renggam, near Ayer Hitam in Johor was shut down...

New bomb found in Colombo 3 days after Easter: Report

A new bomb was found in downtown area of Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka,...