ISLAMABAD: Floods triggered by monsoon rains have killed 96 people across Pakistan in the past two weeks and affected nearly 90,000 others, officials...
ISLAMABAD: Floods triggered by monsoon rains have killed 96 people across Pakistan in the past two weeks and affected nearly 90,000 others, officials...
Members from United National Party shout slogans against the government during a protest against the recent killing by soldiers of unarmed protesters, who...
PHNOM PENH: Six Cambodian farmers were killed when their truck hit an old anti-tank mine planted by Khmer Rouge guerrillas during the country’s...
TAIPEI: Dozens of angry Taiwanese set fire to a giant model of a Japanese warship in a rally yesterday after Japanese lawmakers and...
BEIJING: The judge who presided over the trial of Wang Lijun, the former right-hand man of disgraced politician Bo Xilai, has been removed...
SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-Hye called yesterday for the first family reunions with North Korea in three years, a day after the...
TOKYO: Japan’s prime minister sent an offering to a shrine for war dead yesterday, the anniversary of Japan’s World War Two defeat, while...
BEIJING: An exiled leader of China’s Uighur ethnic minority has condemned the death sentences passed on two people over what authorities called a...
Filipino activists shout anti-US slogans during a protest against a meeting between Philippine and US officials in Manila yesterday. MANILA: The government will...
MANILA: The United States has formally asked for greater access to civilian and military facilities in the Philippines to deploy aircraft, ships, troops...
MANILA: The confirmed death toll from Typhoon Utor rose to eight in the Philippines yesterday as the storm swept across southern China, where...
MANILA: The Philippines yesterday urged its 6,000 nationals in Egypt to leave the country after the worst violence in decades there left more...
MANILA: Militant group Bayan yesterday doubted if government officials, especially allies of President Benigno Aquino III, implicated in the priority development assistance scam...
MANILA: Benigno Aquino survived an assassination attempt during his struggle to the top of bare-knuckle politics, but there is one foe he cannot...
Paraguay’s new President Horacio Cartes and his daughter Sofia Cartes greet the crowd while they are driven through the streets of Asuncion. Conservative...
LONDON: Europe is facing a multi-billion-euro time bomb of rising costs to control tuberculosis (TB) as drug-resistant forms of the lung disease spread,...
MOSCOW/KIEV: Moscow has tightened checks on all imports from Ukraine in what some say is an attempt to dissuade its neighbour from turning...
LONDON: The British government said yesterday it would lift a ban on staff with HIV working in the state-run National Health Service from...
