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NAIROBI, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Seven people, a pilot and six tourists, were killed on Wednesday when the helicopter they were flying in crashed in Kenya's Samburu county, a police report showed. The airc...

By Kyu-seok Shim and Heejin Kim SEOUL, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Seoul on Wednesday for talks with South Korean officials, media reported, after Seoul and Washingt...

BEIJING, Aug 19 (Reuters) - A pioneer of China's aerospace programme, Liu Jiyuan, died in Beijing aged 93 after an illness, the main space contractor said on Wednesday. In a career of nearly four deca...

ANKARA, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Turkey firmly rejected on Wednesday what it called "untenable allegations" by Israel regarding its military position in Syria, after Israel bombed a Syrian air base near the...

(Refiles to add dropped letter 'k' in school name in paragraphs 2, 8) BANGKOK, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Thai schools conducted active shooter drills on Wednesday, as authorities moved to strengthen security...

BEIJING, Aug 19 (Reuters) - China on Wednesday urged respect for each country's digital sovereignty, after a report the U.S. would ask countries to choose sides in the artificial intelligence race wit...

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD, Aug 19 (Reuters) - The Pakistani government challenged on Wednesday a Supreme Court order to move jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan to a private hospital, a petition f...

By Bhagya Ayyavoo NEW DELHI, Aug 19 (Reuters) - For Ukrainian shuttlers Polina Buhrova and Yevheniia Kantemyr, competing at the ongoing World Championships in New Delhi is a way to showcase the resili...

By Greg Torode HONG KONG, Aug 19 (Reuters) - China has completed the first phase of construction on Antelope Reef in the Paracels archipelago, building a man-made island in the hotly-disputed South Ch...

By Feras Dalatey DAMASCUS, Aug 19 - Syrian security forces have arrested a former Assad-era security officer who fled Austria after being sentenced to eight years in prison for abusing detainees and r...