World / Asia

United Nations, United States:  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday warned against using "confrontational rhetoric" over North Korea and said big powers must...

GENEVA/SEOUL: A top North Korean diplomat warned on Tuesday that his country is ready to send “more gift packages” to the United States...

 Bengaluru, Sep 5 (IANS) Senior Kannada journalist and social activist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead on Tuesday night by unidentified men at her...

SHAMLAPUR, Bangladesh/DHAKA: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi came under more pressure on Tuesday from countries with Muslim populations to halt violence against...

MOSCOW: Over one million people gathered in Chechnya, Russia on Monday to protest the Myanmar government violent persecution of the Rohingya Muslims, according...

KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghanistan on Monday joined the international community in denouncing the mass killings of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.  In a statement, the...

Taipei: Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen named a staunchly pro-independence city mayor as her new premier Tuesday in a move which some analysts said...

YANGON: The Myanmar military has lost contact with a training jet and has kicked off a search for the missing plane, the military...

Geneva: Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused Beijing of sabotaging United Nations efforts to promote rights and slammed the world body for often...

Xiamen, China: Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Tuesday of a global "catastrophe" unless a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear impasse can...

Camp Morehead, Afghanistan: Commandos armed with RPG-7 rocket launchers aim at a tank hundreds of metres away, fresh recruits to Afghanistan's most skilled...

TOKYO: A Japan Airlines (JAL) plane made an emergency landing at Tokyo's Haneda International Airport shortly after takeoff on Tuesday following an apparent...

Manila: Accused murderer Manuel Cerna has languished in a Philippine jail for 15 years without a verdict, one of countless inmates enduring interminable...

Quetta, Pakistan: Eight people including four security personnel have been killed in three separate clashes with militants in southwest Pakistan and Karachi, officials...

XIAMEN, China:  The BRICS group of five major emerging economies called Monday for reform of the United Nations and tougher measures against terrorist...

Yangon:  Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai and mainly Muslim countries in Asia led a growing chorus of criticism on Monday aimed at Myanmar...

DHAKA: Indonesia’s foreign minister will fly to Bangladesh on Tuesday for talks following her visit to Myanmar where she urged national leader Aung...

COX'S BAZAR:  With thousands of Rohingya refugees streaming daily across the swampy border into Bangladesh, one hospital was struggling Monday to treat dozens...