-- 2019-05-11 13:16:34
The Afghan National Army commandoes conducted an operation and freed 10 civilians from a Taliban prison in the country's northern province of Kunduz, a military source said Saturday. "The raid was la...
-- 2019-05-11 12:00:29
Scuffles broke out in Hong Kong’s legislature on Saturday between pro-democracy lawmakers and those loyal to Beijing over an extradition law that will extend Beijing’s powers over the fina...
-- 2019-05-10 20:10:04
The three new missiles North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has tested over the past week are eerily familiar to military experts: They look just like a controversial and widely copied missile the Russian...
-- 2019-05-10 17:20:50
Syrian activists and state media say rebel groups are fighting back, trying to retake territory lost to government forces this week in their stronghold in the country's northwest. Syria state al-Ikhb...
-- 2019-05-10 12:47:29
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 hit off the coast of southern Japan on Friday but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage, the Japan Meteorologica...
-- 2019-05-10 11:26:54
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen said on Friday that China has stepped up its efforts to infiltrate and gain influence in Taiwan and she asked national security agencies to counter Beijing’s effort...
-- 2019-05-10 10:35:46
European countries said on Thursday they wanted to preserve Iran's nuclear deal and rejected "ultimatums" from Tehran, after Iran relaxed restrictions on its nuclear programme and threatened moves tha...
-- 2019-05-10 10:32:18
A Thai bay that was made iconic by its appearance in the film The Beach is to remain closed until 2021. Maya Bay, on the island of Phi Phi Leh, was temporarily closed last year after a sharp rise in...
-- 2019-05-09 17:05:30
North Korea has fired two short-range missiles in its second weapons test in less than a week, the South Korean military says. The missiles fired from the Sino-ri base in the north-west of the countr...
-- 2019-05-09 11:35:10
Five labourers were killed in a fierce fire that broke out at a clothing warehouse at Urali Devachi in Pune in the western Indian state of Maharashtra on early Thursday. They were asleep inside the c...
-- 2019-05-08 14:03:12
A car slammed into a group of 16 mostly kindergarten children who were strolling on a sidewalk in the lakeside city of Otsu in western Japan, leaving two dead, police said Wednesday. The accident occ...
-- 2019-05-08 13:15:30
Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy, has left the country, officials confirmed on Wednesday. Her conviction was overturned las...
-- 2019-05-08 11:45:48
Iran has pulled out of "some commitments" under the 2015 international nuclear deal, a year after it was abandoned by the US. President Hassan Rouhani informed other major powers still committed to t...
-- 2019-05-08 11:06:30
At least nine people were killed by a blast targeting a security checkpoint outside a major Sufi shrine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, officials said. The blast, one day...
-- 2019-05-07 21:25:07
Investigators have dismantled a major part of the network linked to Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Tuesday, but warned the chance of further ISIS terro...
-- 2019-05-07 16:30:00
Two Israelis were arrested on suspicion of setting up a “dark” Internet site that was used to buy weapons, drugs and stolen credit cards, Israeli police said on Tuesday. The suspects, in...
-- 2019-05-07 12:19:50
Malaysia on Tuesday said the US government had returned some $57 million in funds recovered from 1MDB assets in the “first installment” of funds to be repatriated under a US kleptocracy as...
-- 2019-05-07 11:09:47
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck in the east of Papua New Guinea early on Tuesday local time, according to the US Geological Survey. The epicentre of the strong quake was 127 km (79 miles) below the...
-- 2019-05-07 10:39:44
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been egged by a protester while campaigning ahead of the nation's general election. The egg grazed Mr Morrison's head but did not break, local media said....
-- 2019-05-07 09:48:44
Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 da...
-- 2019-05-06 13:18:18
State schools in Sri Lanka resumed classes on Monday amid tight security after the Easter Sunday bombings, but many anxious parents kept their children at home over fears of more attacks by Islamic mi...
-- 2019-05-06 12:46:18
An earthquake of 5.8-magnitude struck Ilocos Norte province in the northern Philippines on Monday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The institute said the quake...
-- 2019-05-06 11:30:57
India’s northern heartland began voting on Monday in the fifth phase of a staggered general election, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi hoping his record on national security will win him a seco...
-- 2019-05-06 10:22:56
Sri Lankan police on Sunday discovered a 10-acre camp in the eastern town of Kattankudy, where Islamist militants linked to the deadly Easter attacks are believed to have practiced shooting and bombma...
-- 2019-05-05 21:12:42
Ramadan will begin in Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries on Monday as moon observers said there was no sight of the Ramadan crescent on Saturday. The Islamic world follows a lunar calend...
-- 2019-05-05 20:58:33
Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless after a cyclone packing winds of about 200 km per hour slammed into eastern India, ripping out tin roofs and destroying power and telecom lines, offi...
-- 2019-05-05 18:27:24
Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip have stepped up their attacks on each other, in some of the most intense exchanges of recent years. Palestinian militants have fired more than 450 rockets into...
Reuters 2019-05-05 15:01:26
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Hokkaido, Japan early on Sunday morning local time, according to the US Geological Survey. The epicentre of the quake was 59 km below the...
-- 2019-05-05 11:28:57
Unidentified gunmen killed a ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leader inside his house in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Sunday. Locals said 70-year-old Ghulam Muhammad Mir was affili...
-- 2019-05-05 10:00:10
Sri Lanka’s $4.4 billion tourism industry is reeling from cancellations as travellers shun the sun and sand of the Indian Ocean island after multiple suicide bombings that killed over 250 people...
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