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India will be the 'country of honour' at China's annual five-day South Asia Expo to be held this week in Kunming city, capital of southwest Yunnan Province, officials said on Tuesday.

At least seven more pilgrims died on Sunday during the annual Urs celebrations of Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Pakistan's southern Sindh province due to scorching heat which has claimed 17 lives at the famous fourteenth century sufi shrine till now.

Rakhine, one of Myanmar's poorest states, is a tinderbox of communal tension between its Buddhist majority and a heavily persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, many of whom live in displacement camps after deadly unrest erupted there in 2012.

Several thousand protesters including scientists and intellectuals took to the streets of Moscow to express fears that scientific research in Russia faces dire prospects due to stifling bureaucracy and mismanagement.

The capital city Dhaka is having a festive look with streets adorned with life-size cutouts of Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The Taliban terrorists were sentenced to 25 years in jail on April 30, 2015 by the Swat anti-terrorism court in Pakistan for their role in the 2012 attack on Malala while she was returning home from school.

The US Geological Survey said the quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres, with its epicentre located 19 kilometres from the town of Ranau.

President Pranab Mukherjee has voiced serious concern over terrorism and extremism emanating from India's neighbourhood, saying it remains a major security threat for India as well as other countries in the region.

A solar plane attempting to fly around the world without a drop of fuel plans to make an unscheduled stop Monday night in Nagoya, Japan, because of bad weather.

Tahera Ahmad's Facebook post over the "clear" discrimination went almost immediately went viral on Saturday.

Freedom of navigation in the SCS became an issue after the Chinese Navy last week asked a US surveillance plane to leave the area of an artificial island being constructed by China near Spratly island, called Nansha China.

Tremors continued to rock Nepal following devastating earthquake on April as three aftershocks of over 4 magnitude were felt on Friday in central and northern parts of the country.

Islamic state has killed at least 217 people execution-style, including children, since it moved into the Palmyra area 10 days ago, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski conceded defeat in the county's presidential election Sunday after an exit poll showed him trailing Andrzej Duda, a previously little-known right-wing politician.

The incident took place outside a restaurant in the Hub industrial area on on Monday which links Karachi with the troubled Balochistan province.

If a large volume of water was to build up and break through the blockage, downstream floods could reach as far as India.