World / Asia

Australia boy, 12, runs away to Bali using family credit card 24 Apr 2018 - 09:41 am

Sydney, Australian police were Tuesday investigating how a 12-year-old boy managed to fly alone to the Indonesian island of Bali and spend four...

Taiwan to simulate repelling invasion amid China tensions 24 Apr 2018 - 08:22 am

TAIPEI: Taiwan will simulate repelling an invading force, emergency repairs of a major air base and using civilian-operated drones as part of military...

India vice-president rejects bid to impeach country's top judge 23 Apr 2018 - 11:10 pm

New Delhi: India's vice-president on Monday threw out an unprecedented bid to impeach the chief justice, rejecting accusations that the top judge in...

Malaysia releases images of suspects in Palestinian killing 23 Apr 2018 - 01:42 pm

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysian police on Monday released images of two suspects in the killing of a Palestinian engineer and said they appeared...

Afghan girl spends life disguised as 'son' her parents wanted 23 Apr 2018 - 12:48 pm

Sultanpur, Afghanistan, Sitara Wafadar yearns for long hair like other girls. Instead, the Afghan teenager has disguised herself as a boy for more...

China says 32 nationals dead in major N.Korean bus crash 23 Apr 2018 - 11:07 am

BEIJING: Thirty-two Chinese tourists and four North Koreans died when a bus crashed off a bridge in North Korea, China's foreign ministry said...

S. Korea halts border broadcasts ahead of Kim summit 23 Apr 2018 - 10:23 am

Seoul, South Korea on Monday silenced its battery of giant loudspeakers that blast messages at the North's border soldiers, in a conciliatory gesture...

Grief turns to anger over Kabul suicide attack 23 Apr 2018 - 09:57 am

Kabul, Grieving Afghans buried their loved ones in Kabul on Monday amid growing anger over a suicide attack on a voter registration centre...

Pashtuns defy Pakistan authorties with mass Lahore rally 22 Apr 2018 - 08:01 pm

Lahore, Pakistan: Thousands of Pashtuns defied authorities and held a mass rally in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday, chanting anti-military slogans...

Australians, Turks commemorate Anzac ancestors 22 Apr 2018 - 07:36 pm

MELBOURNE, Australia: Turks and Australians in Melbourne gathered to remember the fallen Anzac troops of the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 at a memorial...

World's oldest person dies in Japan at age of 117 22 Apr 2018 - 03:43 pm

TOKYO: The world's oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman, has died. Nabi Tajima died in a hospital Saturday evening in the town of...

Islamic State suicide bomber kills 48 in Kabul 22 Apr 2018 - 03:20 pm

KABUL, Afghanistan: A suicide bomber struck a voter registration center in the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing at least 48 people in an...

President okays ordinance for death to child rapists 22 Apr 2018 - 02:58 pm

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday approved an ordinance to provide death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below age...

Blast at election centre in Afghan capital, dozens of casualties 22 Apr 2018 - 10:57 am

KABUL: A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, killing at least 12...

Kim heralds more North Korea economic reforms: analysts 22 Apr 2018 - 10:32 am

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's promise to build "socialist economic construction" in his nuclear-armed but impoverished and isolated country could herald...

Blast at election centre in Afghan capital, at least four dead 22 Apr 2018 - 09:52 am

KABUL: An explosion apparently caused by a suicide bomber hit a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday, causing casualties,...