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BEIJING: China on Monday executed a man who stabbed a doctor to death over what he considered a botched nose…

JAKARTA: Nearly two decades after Indonesia’s military was squeezed out of civilian affairs with the downfall of strongman leader Suharto,…

SYDNEY: The Iranian-born gunman behind last year’s deadly siege in an Australian cafe that shocked the country was a complex…