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-- 2019-02-02 10:28:44
Once-in-a-century flooding in part of the eastern Australian state of Queensland looks set to worsen as the nation’s weather bureau on Saturday warned of more heavy rain in the area. Some resid...
-- 2019-02-01 21:59:38
North Korea has pledged to destroy all its nuclear material enrichment facilities, according to the US special envoy for the country, Stephen Biegun, reports BBC. He said the promise had been made to...
-- 2019-02-01 20:57:59
His image is on bank notes and in school textbooks in Iran, often as a black-and-white embodiment of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that swept aside the country’s shah and forever changed the natio...
-- 2019-02-01 17:23:44
Lawyers for two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar for breaking a colonial-era official secrets law appealed to the Supreme Court on Friday against their conviction, as a rights group said the govern...
-- 2019-02-01 16:46:13
Two Indian Air Force (IAF) pilots were killed on Friday after a Mirage 2000 trainer fighter aircraft on a test sortie crashed at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) airport in Bengaluru. An enquiry in...
Reuters 2019-02-01 14:21:38
China has punished 3,021 people in a crackdown on organised crime and the local “protective umbrellas” that allow it to operate, Xinhua reported on Friday, citing a government anti-crime t...
-- 2019-02-01 14:13:42
The Mongolian parliament on Friday elected Gombojav Zandanshatar as its new speaker through a vote of 95.2 per cent in the country's 76-seat parliament. The former head of the cabinet secretariat rep...
-- 2019-02-01 13:54:47
Lawyers for two Reuters reporters jailed for seven years in Myanmar lodged an appeal on Friday at the Supreme Court against their conviction on charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act. The appea...
-- 2019-01-31 13:13:52
Saudi Arabia has ended a sweeping crackdown on corruption ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that it said had recovered more than $106 billion through settlements with scores of senior prince...
-- 2019-01-30 21:02:49
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Wednesday the 'keys to war are in Islamabad, Quetta, Rawalpindi', accusing Pakistan of being a safe haven for cross-border militant activities. He was speaking a...
-- 2019-01-30 19:46:51
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who spent years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy, dismissing a petition filed by Islamists...
-- 2019-01-30 13:50:27
Mongolia’s parliamentary speaker, Enkhbold Myegombo, has been ousted following weeks of public protests against him over accusations he was involved in the corrupt sale of government positions....
-- 2019-01-30 10:29:29
A grenade thrown into a mosque in the southern Philippines killed two people and wounded four, security officials said on Wednesday, three days after twin bombings at a church on a nearby island kille...
-- 2019-01-29 18:29:52
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday twin explosions that killed 20 people in a church on a southern island at the weekend may have been a suicide attack, citing a briefing given to hi...
-- 2019-01-29 17:23:42
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Al-Hamdallah has tendered his resignation and that of his unity government to President Mahmoud Abbas. The announcement would be a blow to faltering reconciliation eff...
-- 2019-01-29 16:35:24
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday asked for China’s understanding over Malaysia’s plan to cancel a $20-billion rail project that spearheads China’s infrastructure push in th...
-- 2019-01-29 15:17:26
Twelve people including an entire family of five were killed and three others were injured in a horrific road accident near Ujjain when an overloaded van collided with a car on Monday midnight. The de...
-- 2019-01-29 11:24:01
Malaysia on Tuesday unveiled an ambitious five-year plan to clamp down on corruption in government, months after a multi-billion-dollar graft scandal brought down the previous administration. The pla...
-- 2019-01-28 21:17:03
US and Taliban negotiators have agreed on a draft framework for a peace deal seeking to put an end to the 17-year conflict in Afghanistan, Washington's top negotiator has said. US negotiators held si...
-- 2019-01-28 12:21:09
A Chinese court on Monday jailed prominent rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang for 4-1/2 years for subversion of state power. Human Rights Watch said the sentencing made a “mockery” of the Chines...
-- 2019-01-27 19:25:25
At least 68 people have been killed and nearly 7,000 forced to take refuge in emergency shelters after floods, landslides and a tornado battered the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in the past week, aut...
-- 2019-01-27 15:24:19
At least four policemen were killed and 11 wounded by two roadside bombs that targeted police convoys in separate attacks in northern Iraq on Sunday, the service and medical sources said. Two died an...
-- 2019-01-27 13:08:43
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit near the Pacific island nation of Fiji just before 8:00 local time on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. Shortly after the area felt another smaller tremor which re...
-- 2019-01-27 10:55:01
Two bombs tore through a Roman Catholic cathedral on a southern Philippine island where Muslim extremists are active, killing at least 21 people and wounding more than 70 during a Sunday Mass, officia...
-- 2019-01-26 16:14:07
For the first time this year, the United States has sent two warships through the strategic Taiwan Strait, according to the Taiwanese government. The move risks further heightening tensions with Chin...
-- 2019-01-26 14:15:47
Tens of thousands of people rallied across Australia on Saturday calling for the abolition of the Jan 26 national holiday in protests showing a deep division over a festivity intended to celebrate the...
-- 2019-01-25 12:23:06
Chinese authorities are holding an Australian writer, who used to be a Chinese citizen, on suspicion of endangering state security, China said on Thursday, and his lawyer said he was suspected of espi...
-- 2019-01-24 21:27:25
India's navy opened a third air base in the far-off Andaman and Nicobar islands on Thursday to beef up surveillance of Chinese ships and submarines entering the Indian Ocean through the nearby Malacca...
-- 2019-01-24 21:26:23
North Korea's leader has expressed "great satisfaction" after receiving a letter from US President Donald Trump, the North's state media said, reports BBC. The letter was passed to Kim Jong-un by one...
-- 2019-01-24 17:11:28
Members of Malaysia's royal families on Thursday elected Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah as the new king, following the unexpected abdication of the previous monarch. Sultan Abdullah, 59, ruler of...
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