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KABUL, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation has signed three cooperation agreements with domestic and international donors to support returnee and internally displaced families, the ministry...

HANOI, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Three children were killed in a fire that burned down their stilt house early Sunday in Lai Chau, a northern mountainous province of Vietnam, Vietnam...

KABUL, April 26 (Xinhua) -- At least two persons have been confirmed dead and five others were injured in a road accident in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on Sunday, a...

SUVA, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Civil servants working in some of Fiji's most remote rural and maritime areas are still depending on public transport to reach local communities, exposing significant...

DHAKA, April 26 (Xinhua) -- A series of lightning strikes in different parts of Bangladesh killed 12 people on Sunday amid heavy rain, local media reported. The majority of the...

BEIJING, April 27 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted near east coast of Honshu, Japan at 1657 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Centre for...

BEIJING, April 27 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted Hokkaido, Japan at 2023 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter,...

TOKYO, April 27 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 struck Japan's northern prefecture of Hokkaido at around 5:24 a.m. local time Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency...

SYDNEY, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Two bodies were found following a house fire in Sydney's northwest, local police said on Monday. Emergency services were called to Lieutenant Bowen Road, Bowen...

TOKYO, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Two U.S. Marines stationed in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa were arrested by local police on Sunday on suspicion of illegal entry and drunk driving,...