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-- 2018-08-17 13:36:33
The United States on Thursday welcomed Saudi Arabia’s contribution of $100 million to help stabilize parts of Syria no longer held by Islamic State, which comes as the Trump administration looks...
-- 2018-08-17 13:30:54
Saudi Arabia says it has contributed 100 million US dollar to northeast Syria for "stabilisation projects" in areas once held by the Islamic State group. The money "will save lives, help facilitate...
-- 2018-08-16 18:36:17
Former Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has died on Thursday aged 93. He was being treated for age-related illnesses in Delhi's AIIMS hospital. Vajpayee was one of the founding members of...
-- 2018-08-16 15:25:27
Flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains in the southern Indian state of Kerala has killed at least 73 people, shut down an airport and displaced more than 85,000 people, officials have said. The state...
-- 2018-08-16 14:43:39
Thailand will ban imports of 432 types of scrap electronics within six months, an environment ministry official said on Thursday, the latest country to respond to China’s crackdown on imports of...
-- 2018-08-16 12:11:06
New Zealand's parliament has banned many foreigners from buying existing homes in the country - a move aimed at making properties more affordable. The ban only applies to non-residents. Australians a...
-- 2018-08-16 10:00:49
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has admitted he made a mistake in allowing the country’s foreign minister to speak to his US counterpart during negotiations that led to a 2015 inte...
-- 2018-08-15 15:19:02
An Indian shipping company says one of its crude oil tankers suffered an explosion off the coast of Oman and three of its sailors are missing. The Shipping Corporation of India says the explosion str...
-- 2018-08-15 11:55:14
New Zealand school teachers went on strike on Wednesday for the first time in more than 20 years, challenging the Labour government’s plans to balance promised fiscal responsibility against grow...
-- 2018-08-15 11:26:05
India will launch its first manned space mission by 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, which could make it the fourth nation to do so after the United States, Russia and China. In...
-- 2018-08-14 17:45:12
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said Myanmar must accept Rohingyas because they are their citizens as they have lived in Myanmar for generations. Mahathir blasted Myanmar's treatment of...
-- 2018-08-14 15:29:05
The spokesman for the Defence Ministry in Kabul says the Taliban have overrun a military base in northern Afghanistan, killing 17 soldiers and wounding at least 19 troops. Ghafor Ahmad Jawed says the...
-- 2018-08-14 14:48:53
Israel’s finance minister confirmed on Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt in May to discuss a long-term ceasefire in the Gaza Str...
-- 2018-08-14 13:21:06
Retired South Korean farmer Hwang Rae-ha would love to see his mother again, but nearly 70 years after he last set eyes on her, he says he would settle for a photograph. “Too much time has pa...
-- 2018-08-14 13:09:19
A former Australian archbishop, the most senior Catholic cleric in the world convicted of concealing child sex abuse, was spared jail on Tuesday when he was ordered to serve his one-year sentence at h...
-- 2018-08-14 12:49:41
A fire broke out in a hospital in Myanmar’s largest city of Yangon late on Monday, forcing staff to evacuate patients on stretchers and in wheelchairs, rescuers said. There were no immediate re...
-- 2018-08-13 22:18:57
Iran's Supreme Leader on Monday rejected US President Donald Trump's offer of unconditional talks to improve bilateral ties and he also accused the Iranian government of economic mismanagement in the...
-- 2018-08-13 22:17:13
North and South Korea agreed on Monday to hold a summit in the North in September, another step towards boosting cooperation between the old rivals, even as doubts grow over efforts to end the North's...
-- 2018-08-13 14:43:07
North and South Korea have agreed to hold a summit in Pyongyang in September, the latest step forward in cross-border ties this year after more high-level talks on Monday, the South’s Unificatio...
-- 2018-08-13 11:36:45
At least 39 people, including 12 children, have been killed in a blast that brought down a building in Syria's mainly rebel-held north-western province of Idlib, reports say. The building in the Sarm...
-- 2018-08-13 10:20:43
At least nine people have been killed in a fire at a hospital in Taiwan, state media has reported. The fire broke out on in a ward on the seventh floor of the hospital in New Taipei City early on Mon...
-- 2018-08-12 18:47:37
Indonesian search and rescue teams found eight victims and one survivor, a 12-year old boy, after a small plane crashed in the eastern province of Papua, police said on Sunday. The Dimonim Air passen...
Reuters 2018-08-12 13:25:26
Russia’s military said it had shot down a drone that came close to its Syrian air base at Hmeimim on Saturday and was launched from the Idlib “de-escalation” zone controlled by what...
-- 2018-08-12 13:01:26
A total of 50 militants including Taliban key commander Mullah Toofan have surrendered to local authorities in the western Badghis province of Afghanistan on Sunday, police spokesman Naqibullah Amini...
-- 2018-08-12 12:32:19
Jordan says four people were killed during a police raid on a house sheltering militants suspected of being behind a bomb attack on a police van a day earlier. Security forces on Saturday stormed a b...
-- 2018-08-12 12:25:23
Thousands of protesters rallied in Tel Aviv against Israel’s new law declaring it the nation-state of the Jewish people, legislation that has angered the country’s Arab minority and drawn...
-- 2018-08-11 21:13:58
Iran fired a short range anti-ship missile last week as part of the short notice naval exercise it held near the Strait of Hormuz, according to two US officials. Earlier this week the top US commande...
-- 2018-08-11 20:51:11
A newspaper of the ruling Communist Party said Saturday that no religion is above the law in China, urging officials to stay firm while dealing with a rare protest over the planned demolition of a mas...
-- 2018-08-11 20:33:33
Scientists say the powerful Indonesian earthquake that killed more than 300 people lifted the island it struck by as much as 25 centimeters (10 inches). Using satellite images of Lombok from the days...
-- 2018-08-11 19:32:31
More than half of the 14 districts in India’s Kerala state have been put on high alert as the death toll from one of the worst floods in the southern state reached 34. Torrential rains and land...
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