SEOUL: South Korea said yesterday that high-level talks with North Korea scheduled to begin in Seoul today had been called off, after the...
SEOUL: South Korea said yesterday that high-level talks with North Korea scheduled to begin in Seoul today had been called off, after the...
HONG KONG: By holing up in Hong Kong, the American defense contractor who says he leaked information on classified US surveillance programs has...
MANILA: President Benigno Aquino III wants some changes in the standard operating procedures governing Filipino United Nations peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, one...
PHNOM PENH: Nearly 300 Cambodian garment workers who produce clothing for US sportswear company Nike have been dismissed for taking part in strikes...
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to alter passports so that transgenders no longer have to describe themselves as male or...
Investigators at the scene of the suicide bombing outside the Supreme Court in Kabul yesterday. KABUL: A Taliban suicide car bomber yesterday targeted...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ex-military leader Pervez Musharraf was granted bail yesterday in a second case relating to his nine-year rule, bringing closer his possible...
KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents announced yesterday they have released a Kyrgyz hostage they seized in April after a helicopter crash-landing in a mountainous...
KANDAHAR: Taliban fighters beheaded two boys aged 10 and 16 as a warning to villagers not to cooperate with the Afghan government, officials...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yesterday accused Indian jets of briefly violating its airspace, days after New Delhi said one of its soldiers had been killed...
KABUL: The Taliban have said they are willing to discuss how to reduce civilian casualties in the ongoing insurgency in Afghanistan, a top...
KARACHI: The government has started sweeping reforms, beginning with civil aviation. A new division has been created to look after the sector, which...
LONDON/DUBAI: U.S.-based Excelerate Energy has won a contract to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in the United Arab Emirates (UAE),...
MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino urged the United Nations Tuesday to provide more security to its depleted peacekeeping force in Syria's Golan Heights...
NEW DELHI: A veteran politician from India's governing Congress party died Tuesday of multiple shotgun wounds he suffered in a Maoist ambush last...
VIENNA: OPEC kept its world oil demand forecast for 2013 virtually unchanged in its latest update on Tuesday, but tipped downward revisions given...
RIYADH: Saudi authorities beheaded on Tuesday a Syrian man convicted of trying to smuggle narcotics into the ultra-conservative kingdom, the interior ministry said....
Painted stones and a card bearing get well messages are seen in the flower beds outside Nelson Mandela's Johannesburg house, South Africa, 10...
