KUNDUZ: Militants in northeast Afghanistan killed 18 policemen in an ambush, the interior ministry said yesterday, as the nation’s security forces struggle to...
KUNDUZ: Militants in northeast Afghanistan killed 18 policemen in an ambush, the interior ministry said yesterday, as the nation’s security forces struggle to...
KABUL: The names of nearly 5,000 Afghans killed by a Soviet-backed government in purges that marked the start of decades of violence have...
ISLAMABAD: Russia is ready to execute the Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project, ignoring the US sanctions on Iran, a Russian minister has revealed in...
ISLAMABAD: Faced with a resilient Taliban insurgency, deadly sectarian violence and rampant crimes, the government is considering a slew of administrative and legal...
MULTAN: Four Pakistani sisters killed themselves after a row with their father who could not afford dowries for them to get married, officials...
Soldiers aboard a military jeep pass by the site of the stand-off between government forces and the remnants of Muslim rebels in Zamboanga...
Visitors run away from a tidal bore as it surges past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province,...
TOKYO: A Japanese court yesterday jailed a man for slipping corrosive poison into the shoes of a colleague he was stalking, causing her...
PHNOM PENH: Cambodian opposition politicians and Buddhist monks urged King Norodom Sihamoni yesterday to delay a new session of parliament after a disputed...
BEIJING: The verdict in the case of China’s fallen political star Bo Xilai, due on Sunday, will cap an extraordinary scandal involving bribes,...
BANGKOK: Thailand has seized nearly $800,000 worth of assets, including a Porsche and a Mercedes-Benz, from a monk who was disrobed for a...
TOKYO: Red-faced officials issued an embarrassed apology to Japan’s prime minister yesterday after spelling his name wrong during a high-profile tour of the...
COLOMBO: A Tamil candidate for landmark polls in Sri Lanka’s former warzone fled a mob attack yesterday as the man tipped to become...
SINGAPORE: Singapore and the European Union moved a step closer yesterday to ratifying a free trade agreement that includes a “green” component. They...
MANILA: Nur Misuari, a charismatic Muslim leader who set the Philippines’ south ablaze with rebellion decades ago, is back doing what he does...
MANILA: Two lawmakers urged President Aquino yesterday to rein in Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala, whom they accused of issuing misleading figures on the...
MANILA: After finding time to personally make a quick but careful review of the stacks of documents related to the plunder and malversation...
MANILA: Authorities evacuated northern coastal villages, suspended ferry services and called in fishing boats yesterday as an approaching category-five storm (strongest), labelled a...
