Colombo: A major storm left three dead, two missing and more than a dozen injured across Sri Lanka, authorities said Thursday, as powerful...
Colombo: A major storm left three dead, two missing and more than a dozen injured across Sri Lanka, authorities said Thursday, as powerful...
Beijing: Nearly 12 tonnes of smuggled pangolin scales have been confiscated by Chinese officials -- the country's largest-ever seizure of the endangered mammal's...
New York: The United Nations has warned of a worsening crisis of malnutrition among the besieged population in the Syrian eastern regions of...
Denpasar, Indonesia: Thousands of foreign tourists were leaving Bali by plane Thursday following a nearly three-day airport shutdown sparked by a rumbling volcano...
DHAKA: Bangladesh could start relocating Rohingya Muslim refugees to a flood-prone island off its coast in the middle of next year, a government...
Pattani, Thailand: Heavy floods swept into southern Thailand this week killing five people, authorities said Thursday as photos of waterlogged and damaged roads...
Seoul: North Korea Thursday released pictures of its latest missile launch, giving analysts a chance to test Pyongyang's claim of a breakthrough that...
SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS: The United States warned North Korea’s leadership it would be “utterly destroyed” if war were to break out after Pyongyang test...
Former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, who told Reuters on Wednesday he intended to run in the presidential election early next year, told...
Washington: President Donald Trump drew fierce condemnation Wednesday after he retweeted three anti-Muslim videos posted by the deputy head of a British far-right...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories: A landmark Palestinian unity deal faltered dangerously on Wednesday as a key deadline to implement it drew near, with...
BEIRUT: The Russian-proposed ceasefire in the Eastern Ghouta area of Syria has been widely observed, a war monitor and a witness said on...
Manila: Two campaigners investigating alleged human rights abuses have been shot dead in the Philippines, authorities said Wednesday, deepening concerns that a "climate...
Yaoundé: Four Cameroonian soldiers were killed by suspected separatists in a restive English-speaking region early Wednesday, army and government sources said. "Four soldiers...
Miami: Police arrested a suspected serial killer on Tuesday who faces charges of murdering four people over a period of several weeks in...
RAMALLAH: Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message to his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday to mark the International Day of Solidarity...
JUBA, South Sudan: Forty people were killed and dozens others kidnapped when an armed group attacked a tribal community in Duk Padiet in...
ROME: Lebanon's Saad al-Hariri will "certainly" remain prime minister and the country's political crisis "will be resolved definitively in a few days", President...
