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A bombing attack in southern Iran claimed by the Islamic State group has killed 91 people, state media said Saturday, raising an earlier toll after two victims had succumbed to …

Lebanon’s Hezbollah fired Saturday more than 60 rockets at an Israeli military base, the group said, describing the barrage as a response to the killing of Hamas’s deputy leader in …

Twenty-five minutes after the New Year’s Day earthquake, a tsunami several metres high barrelled into Shiromaru, leaving a trail of destruction for the Japanese coastal community’s mostly elderly residents. The …

The head of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group warned Israel Friday that it will respond swiftly “on the battlefield” to the killing of Hamas’s deputy leader in one of its Beirut …

A shop owner in Iran has been sentenced to two years in prison after publishing photos without a headscarf, the U.S.-based human rights network, HRANA, said on Friday. The post …

Chinese asset management giant Zhongzhi Enterprise Group has filed for bankruptcy and was unable to pay its debts, a Beijing court said on Friday. The post Chinese finance giant Zhongzhi …

More than 76,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon in almost three months of near-daily fighting along the border with Israel, the UN’s International Organization for Migration has said. The …

Tesla is recalling more than 1.6 million electric vehicles in China, the country’s market regulator said Friday, owing to software issues that could pose safety risks while driving. The post …

Hampered by bad weather and damaged roads, Japanese rescuers searched Friday for 222 people still missing four days after a devastating earthquake as the death toll approached 100. The post …

China called Friday for “restraint” from all sides after Seoul said North Korea had fired an artillery barrage near two South Korean islands. The post China calls for ‘restraint’ from …