Tokyo: A 28-year-old man died in Japan after choking on a rice ball at a speed-eating contest, an event organiser said Tuesday. The...
Tokyo: A 28-year-old man died in Japan after choking on a rice ball at a speed-eating contest, an event organiser said Tuesday. The...
Khartoum: Eight people arrested in Sudan for allegedly protesting against a government decision to raise fuel prices went on trial in the capital...
JOHANNESBURG: Riek Machar, South Sudan’s ex-First Vice President-turned-rebel leader was denied entry into Khartoum airport in Sudan, a military spokesman for his rebel...
JERUSALEM: A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli forces Tuesday for allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli soldier in the West Bank,...
ANKARA: Turkey has "strongly" condemned Monday's suicide attack inside a Shia mosque in Afghanistan that left at least 27 people dead. "We strongly...
MELBOURNE, Australia: Two earthquakes shook New Zealand on Tuesday, as aftershocks from a temblor that left two dead earlier this month continued to...
SANAA: An al-Qaeda suspect was killed in a drone strike in central Yemen on Monday, according to a local security source. The airstrike...
ANKARA: Turkish Armed Forces hit 93 Islamic State targets including shelters and command-and-control centers in Syria on Monday, according to a statement released...
NINEVEH, Iraq: Nine Islamic State militants were killed and four others injured in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike late Monday in northern Mosul, according...
Hanoi: The United Nations' human rights watchdog called on Vietnam Tuesday to release three rights activists who were recently detained and investigate allegations...
Ankara: Turkey on Tuesday dismissed over 15,000 more civil servants, police officers and military personnel within the state of emergency imposed after the...
Noumea: Three people are dead -- including two children -- and five others missing after torrential rain triggered landslides on the French overseas...
Acapulco, Mexico: At least 24 people, some bearing signs of torture, were killed in a series of incidents over the weekend in Mexico's...
Peshawar: At least three security personnel were killed and four others were injured when a roadside bomb exploded in Peshawar Tuesday. The bomb...
Moscow: Russia has accused Ukraine of abducting two Russian servicemen on the annexed Crimea peninsula, but Kiev said it had merely detained two...
Bangkok: Thailand's military leaders Tuesday announced $358 million in cash handouts for some of the kingdom's poorest people, a surprise giveaway from a...
Cairo: An Egyptian appeals court on Tuesday quashed one of two life sentences handed down against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi since his...
Seoul: South Korea's Cabinet on Tuesday approved a bill that would allow the opposition parties to pick candidates for an independent counsel to...
