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Thirteen people died when a passenger train derailed in eastern Iran on Wednesday, the semi-official Fars news agency said, while 60 passengers were seriously injured. The train travelling to the city of Yazd collided with an excavator before goin..
Bangladeshi officials have accused the operator of a container depot of exacerbating a deadly blaze by not storing chemicals safely. Nine firefighters were among more than 40 people killed after fire broke out near the port city of ...
Two brothers from the wealthy Gupta family have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates, the South African and Emirati authorities have announced. Atul and Rajesh Gupta are accused in South Africa of profiting from their close lin...
Sri Lanka will need $5 billion over the next six months to ensure basic living standards, and is renegotiating the terms of a yuan-denominated swap worth $1.5 billion with China so as to fund essential imports, the prime minister said on Tuesday.
A US official has warned that North Korea could conduct a seventh nuclear test "at any time". Sung Kim, US Special Representative to North Korea, made the warning days after Pyongyang test-launched a record eight ballistic missiles on Su..
Suspect was found in hysterical state and took off all her clothes An African woman has been arrested in Kuwait after stripping naked in full view of the pubic in an attempt to avoid being arrested by police, local media reported. The woman is ..
Defendant was also convicted of spreading false news A Kuwaiti court sentenced a Twitter user to five years in prison after convicting him of insulting Saudi Arabia on social media, a local newspaper has reported. The verdict was passed by the ..
A top court in Kuwait has revoked an earlier 10-year-jail term for a Kuwaiti woman and sentenced her instead to three years in prison on charges of torturing her Indian housemaid to death, a local newspaper has reported. The court had upheld a sus..
Several other countries in the Muslim and Arab world have condemned derogatory remarks by India's Bharatiya Janata Party about the Prophet Muhammad, as well summoning the south Asian country's envoys. Indonesia and Malaysia ..