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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China next week, Beijing said on Tuesday, as New Delhi tries to balance its trade deficit with its neighbour despite a simmering border dispute. This will be Modi’s first visit to China as prime minister. In a statement posted online, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Modi will visit during May 14-16. ...

Climbing Mount Everest this season is “almost impossible” because the routes have been damaged by avalanches triggered by last month’s earthquake, officials in Nepal say. They warn that it will take time for the routes to be remade. The government has not announced an official decision. At least 19 people were killed in the avalanches. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake is now ...

Thai officials say they have found two skeletons possibly linked to people smuggling, days after the discovery of 26 bodies in a mass grave. Both skeletons were found in abandoned camps in Phang Nga province, the local governor said. One was tied to a tree. Phang Nga is several hundred kilometres away from the site in Songkhla Province where 26 ...

There is a risk of serious outbreaks of disease in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake, aid agencies have warned. A lack of shelter, contaminated water and poor sanitation could lead to cholera, dysentery and other water-borne diseases, the charities said. The UK’s Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) said in some areas people were living and defecating in the open. The ...

France’s National Front party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen says he is “ashamed” his daughter – current party leader Marine – still bears his surname. Amid a growing feud, Mr Le Pen said he hoped she “would get married as quickly as possible so as to change her name”. He added he would not support Marine in presidential elections in 2017. ...

Nepali police and local volunteers found the bodies of about 100 trekkers and villagers buried in an avalanche set off by last month’s devastating earthquake and were digging through snow and ice for signs of dozens more missing, officials said on Monday. The bodies were recovered on Saturday and Sunday at the Langtang village, 60 kilometres(40 miles) north of Kathmandu, ...

A pilot said Sunday that he is anxious but excited about flying a solar plane solo from China to Hawaii on the longest leg of the first attempt to fly around the world without a drop of fuel.  André Borschberg, 62, is due to fly over the Pacific Ocean for five days and five nights in the plane that has ...

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday said his country, which was yet to emerge from shadows of terrorism, was fighting a battle against terror and extremism on behalf of its partners and was looking forward to an economically integrated Asia, where peace between States prevailed. He wanted India and Afghanistan to make SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) an ...

Finland’s navy has dropped depth charges in waters near Helsinki as a warning to a suspected submarine. An unidentified object was spotted on Monday within Finnish territorial waters. It was detected again early on Tuesday, the navy said. The incident comes amid growing concern in the region over Russia’s military exercises. In October, Sweden launched a hunt for a foreign ...