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The government is set to provide economic relief one million per person to the 93 beneficiaries nearest of kin

A nationwide strike marked the one-year anniversary Tuesday of the army’s seizure of power in Myanmar.

A land mine-detecting rat in Cambodia who received a prestigious award for his life-saving duty has died in retirement, the charity for which he had worked has announced.

He feels like a man who has drowned.

A hefty set of tusks is usually an advantage for elephants, allowing them to dig for water, strip bark for food and joust with other elephants. But during episodes of intense ivory poaching, those big incisors become a liability.

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister appealed on Tuesday on the international community to save his country from “death and demise”

The decision is likely to sharply increase the price of gasoline but is expected to temporarily ease the shortage crisis in the country

Destined for the scrap heap are equipment and vehicles that can neither be repaired nor transferred to Afghanistan’s security forces due of poor condition.

Opponents of Myanmar’s military government declared the country’s 2008 constitution void and put forward an interim replacement charter late Wednesday in a major political challenge to the ruling junta.