-- 2018-12-18 16:42:41
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must take tough measures to put pressure on Myanmar to end atrocities against the Rohingya people. "W...
-- 2018-12-18 14:27:26
South Korean fire department officials say three teenage boys were presumed dead and seven other boys were being treated for injuries after they were found unconscious at a motel in the seaside town o...
-- 2018-12-17 17:27:48
Turkey pledged on Monday to press ahead with plans to target a Kurdish militia in northern Syria, brushing off what it said were American efforts to stymie Turkish military operations east of the Euph...
-- 2018-12-17 15:06:02
At least nine people were killed when a car bomb exploded in a vegetable market in the northwest Syrian city of Afrin, in the latest such attack in towns under control of Turkey-backed rebel groups, w...
-- 2018-12-17 13:06:40
An Indian court has sent a senior Congress party politician to jail for life in what is being seen as the most important conviction so far over the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. Sajjan Kumar was found gui...
-- 2018-12-17 11:03:30
An Australian government lawmaker on Monday resigned from Cabinet over a media report he used a website to meet a younger woman while on a Hong Kong work trip — overshadowing the government post...
-- 2018-12-17 10:32:55
Saudi Arabia has denounced US Senate resolutions to end US military aid for a Riyadh-led war in Yemen and to blame the country's crown prince for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Saudi f...
-- 2018-12-17 10:28:40
Coastal areas in India's Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are on high alert as the cyclonic storm developing over the Bay of Bengal is set to make landfall around Kakinada on Monday afternoon, according...
Reuters 2018-12-17 10:17:03
North Korea on Sunday condemned the US administration for stepping up sanctions and pressure on the nuclear-armed country, warning of a return to "exchanges of fire" and that disarming Pyongyang could...
-- 2018-12-16 20:40:56
A huge explosion and fire has hit a restaurant in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo, according to BBC. Initial reports on Japanese media suggested at least 20 people were injured, with ma...
-- 2018-12-16 19:10:41
MALE, Dec 16 (Reuters): Police in the Maldives said they have frozen the bank accounts of former president Abdulla Yameen as they investigate allegations by state bodies that he conducted "illicit" d...
-- 2018-12-16 15:45:02
KATHMANDU (Xinhua): Nepal started on Saturday the implementation of the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, also known as the Montreal Convention 1999....
-- 2018-12-16 13:16:05
Officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan and China met in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday to discuss trade, development and solutions to end the region's relentless conflicts, reports Al Jazeera. Th...
-- 2018-12-16 13:08:15
BEIJING: A coal mine accident in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing killed seven workers and injured three, state-owned Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. The workers at the Fengc...
-- 2018-12-16 12:50:31
Mr Wickremesinghe was sworn in by President Maithripala Sirisena, who sacked him on October 26, report agencies. United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the Prime Minister o...
-- 2018-12-15 16:02:08
At least seven civilians were killed and nearly two dozens injured when government forces fired at anti-India protesters in disputed Kashmir following a gunbattle that left three rebels and a soldier...
-- 2018-12-15 14:53:11
Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned as Sri Lanka's prime minister, seven weeks after he was appointed in a surprise move that sparked a political crisis. Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's former president, signed hi...
Reuters 2018-12-15 11:42:39
India’s top court rejected petitions on Friday seeking an investigation of fighter jet deal worth about $8.7 billion with France’s Dassault Aviation, handing a political victory to the rul...
-- 2018-12-15 11:25:58
Eleven people have died and dozens more have fallen ill after eating rice at a temple in India, police say. About 70 people have been admitted to hospital after eating the food following a ceremony i...
-- 2018-12-15 10:27:00
Australia formally recognises West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reversing decades of Middle East policy, but will not move its embassy there immediately, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on...
-- 2018-12-14 18:19:24
Australian authorities have issued a warning about a powerful cyclone that is tracking towards the coast of Queensland. Cyclone Owen is moving slowly over waters off the Northern Territory with winds...
-- 2018-12-14 12:41:24
At least seven people were killed and three others injured after a vehicle carrying them fell into a gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Friday. The accident took place in mountainous Rea...
-- 2018-12-14 11:15:28
The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs has declared it genocide in Myanmar as its military and security forces unleashed a targeted campaign against the Rohingya people. Mentioning killing unarmed...
-- 2018-12-13 21:41:26
At least two Israelis have been killed and two injured in a shooting in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in separate operations overnight on Wednesday. Israel's...
-- 2018-12-13 18:12:47
Sri Lanka's top court has ruled that the president's dissolution of parliament last month was unconstitutional, as a political crisis continues to grip the nation. President Maithripala Sirisena dism...
-- 2018-12-13 12:47:37
Canadian businessman Michael Spavor, who worked with North Korea, is being investigated on suspicion of harming China’s state security, officials said, days after a former Canadian diplomat was...
Reuters 2018-12-13 10:49:20
After suffering an electoral thrashing at the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014, small regional and caste-based parties are back in the rec...
-- 2018-12-12 17:03:02
More than 1,000 people across New Zealand joined candlelight vigils on Wednesday to commemorate British tourist Grace Millane, who police say was murdered earlier this month. The 22-year-old tourist'...
-- 2018-12-12 11:23:29
A Canadian, reported to be a former diplomat, has been detained in China and his current employer says it is working for his prompt release. The International Crisis Group said it was "aware of repor...
-- 2018-12-11 20:24:08
India's government has appointed former finance ministry official Shaktikanta Das as head of the central bank, a day after Urjit Patel resigned from the post following a protracted spat with the gover...
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