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Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey are likely to rise as more torrential rain pounds the U.S. Gulf Coast, where at least eight people have already been killed in Texas and tens of thousands driven from their homes, officials said on Monday.

Indian rapist Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was revered "on the pedestal of God" but he committed a breach of the gravest nature, a special court said on Monday while sentencing the self-styled spiritual guru to 20 years in jail for raping two

North Korea has fired a missile over northern Japan in a move Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called an "unprecedented" threat to his country.   The missile, launched early on Tuesday Korean time, flew over Hokkaido island before

China says India has withdrawn troops from a disputed Himalayan border area, ending a tense stand-off lasting weeks. The foreign ministry in Beijing said it was pleased that "trespassing Indian personnel have all pulled back to the Indian side

A controversial Indian guru convicted of rape on Friday has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Indian media reported that Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's followers set a vehicle alight just ahead of sentencing. Violence after Friday's verdict

Up to 2,000 people have been rescued from floods in and around Houston, as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to batter Texas with heavy rains. There are reports of possible deaths in submerged vehicles, but investigations continue, Chief Darryl

Indian security forces have been put on high alert ahead of the sentencing of a controversial guru who was convicted of rape on Friday. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh followers went on a violent rampage after the ruling in the city of Panchkula and 38

Situation was peaceful in Haryana's Panchkula, and Sirsa on Sunday. Panchkula witnessed the maximum violence on Friday after Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was convicted of rape by Special CBI court. Curfew was relaxed in

A second person was killed on Saturday as Harvey, the most powerful storm to hit Texas in more than 50 years, roared inland, knocking out power to more than 230,000 people and threatening catastrophic flooding. The second fatality was identified as

Gun shots rang out across northern Rakhine State on Saturday afternoon as clashes continued between suspected Rohingya militants and Myanmar security forces, officials said, a day after fighting killed 89 people and forced civilians to flee remote

The Foreign Ministry on Saturday summoned the Myanmar envoy in Dhaka and expressed "serious concern" over the recent happenings, including the fresh entry of Myanmar nationals into Bangladesh.  Thousands of unarmed civilians,

The United States urged Myanmar authorities to avoid a response that would inflame the tensions as an attack by ethnic Rohingya militants in western Myanmar left 12 security personnel and 77 Rohingya Muslims dead in a dramatic escalation of communal

Fugitive former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra is in Dubai and may try to seek asylum in the UK, a junta source told AFP Saturday, after fleeing the country to avoid a court ruling in a vanishing act that stunned many Thais. Yingluck, 50, was due

Hurricane Harvey has made landfall in Texas with winds of up to 130mph (215 km/h) battering coastal areas. The storm, which has even stronger gusts, is the most powerful to hit the US mainland for 12 years. Up to 40in (1m) of rain is expected to

North Korea has fired three short-range ballistic missiles, the US military says. They were launched from a site in the North Korean province of Gangwon and flew for about 250km (150 miles), officials in South Korea said, reports BBC. Since firing

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the chief of Dera Sacha Sauda, whose supporters went on the rampage in Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan to protest the court verdict convicting him of rape, has enjoyed the patronage and support of the Bharatiya Janata Party

After the CBI court in Panchkula convicted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in a rape case, widespread violence erupted in several parts of Punjab and Haryana. At least 30 people were killed in clashes in Panchkula alone while Sirsa,

Muslim militants in Myanmar staged a coordinated attack on 30 police posts and an army base in Rakhine state on Friday, and at least 59 of the insurgents and 12 members of the security forces were killed, the army and government said. The fighting