-- 2018-07-11 12:15:12
The Sri Lankan cabinet has unanimously approved a move to bring back capital punishment for drug-related crimes, the Times of India reports citing a senior minister. Gamini Jayawickrema Perera, minis...
-- 2018-07-11 11:12:31
Authorities in Saudi Arabia say a Defence Ministry official has been arrested on suspicion of accepting over $260,000 in a bribe. A report Tuesday night by the state-run Saudi Press Agency says the o...
-- 2018-07-10 18:25:18
The Thai Navy SEAL divers have rescued all 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for more than two weeks deep inside a flooded Thai cave. A Thai navy SEAL unit made the announcement on Tuesday, maki...
-- 2018-07-10 16:22:08
An eleventh person was rescued on Tuesday from a flooded Thai cave complex where 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped for more than two weeks. Rescuers hopes all 13 would be out by the end of...
-- 2018-07-10 15:10:13
At least ten people, including two intelligence service agents and eight civilians, were killed in a suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan, official says. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the pro...
-- 2018-07-10 13:35:33
The first eight boys rescued from a Thai cave complex are in good health overall and some asked for chocolate bread for breakfast, officials said on Tuesday as rescuers began a third and more challeng...
-- 2018-07-10 13:07:53
Taiwan is bracing for super typhoon Maria on Tuesday, with some transport services suspended and the weather bureau warning of landslides and flash floods on the heavily industrialised island. As of...
-- 2018-07-10 11:42:35
Thai rescue workers pulled three more bodies from the Andaman Sea, officials said on Tuesday, as the grim task of identifying more than 40 dead gets underway following a boat accident off the coast of...
-- 2018-07-10 10:33:05
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet in the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, South Korea, April 27, 2018. Reut...
-- 2018-07-09 18:08:27
Rescuers suspended operations for the day after bringing four more boys out the flooded cave system in northern Thailand on Monday. According to a witness working with the rescue team confirmed the s...
-- 2018-07-09 16:32:45
The Indian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for four men who had fatally gang raped a female student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012. Three of the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangr...
-- 2018-07-09 14:53:08
Rescuers in western Japan dug through mud and rubble on Monday, racing to find survivors after torrential rains unleashed floods and landslides that killed more than 100 people, with dozens missing....
-- 2018-07-09 14:23:02
An operation to rescue a group of Thai boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave resumed on Monday, said several officials with knowledge of the operation at the Tham Luang cave in the nor...
-- 2018-07-09 10:46:16
A court in Myanmar has charged two jailed Reuters journalists with obtaining secret state documents, moving the landmark press freedom case into its trial stage after six months of preliminary hearing...
-- 2018-07-08 19:42:44
Indian police on Saturday charged five people, including the brother of a lawmaker from the ruling party, in relation to the death of the father of a teenage girl raped last year. Atul Singh Sengar,...
-- 2018-07-08 19:09:37
Rescuers in Thailand have retrieved the first of the 12 boys, trapped with their football coach in a cave for two weeks. Four of the boys were extracted from the cave a couple of minutes apart, immed...
-- 2018-07-08 13:32:26
A dangerous mission to rescue 12 Thai schoolboys and their soccer coach trapped inside a flooded cave for more than two weeks began on Sunday and authorities said the first survivor may emerge around...
-- 2018-07-08 11:59:43
The death toll from unprecedented rains in Japan rose to at least 64 on Sunday after rivers burst their banks and forced several million people from their homes, media reports said, with more rain set...
-- 2018-07-07 20:02:04
The timing of the accountability court’s verdict against former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Avenfield Reference case, just 20 days before the general elections, has come as a sho...
-- 2018-07-07 19:22:02
North Korea says high-level talks with a US delegation led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were “regrettable” and has accused Washington of trying to unilaterally pressure the country in...
-- 2018-07-07 18:20:50
At least 50 people were missing as torrential rain that has killed 38 people pounds western and central Japan, public broadcaster NHK said on Saturday. On top of that, more than 1.6 million were evac...
-- 2018-07-07 16:33:12
The Thai boys trapped in a cave have exchanged emotional letters with their parents, for the first time since their ordeal began two weeks ago. "Don't worry, we are all strong," one child said in a n...
-- 2018-07-07 12:57:54
Despite fading hopes, rescuers in Thailand resumed a search on Saturday for 23 survivors after a boat carrying Chinese tourists sank off the island of Phuket in rough weather, while authorities began...
-- 2018-07-07 10:50:23
World powers and Iran appeared to make no concrete breakthrough on Friday in talks to provide Tehran with an economic package to compensate for US sanctions that begin taking effect in August. Minist...
-- 2018-07-07 10:38:21
At least 45 people are missing as torrential rains that have killed 11 people pounded western and central Japan, public broadcaster NHK said on Saturday, with more than 1.6 million people evacuated fr...
-- 2018-07-06 18:03:38
A court in Islamabad sentenced Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison in a corruption case on Friday. Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz was sentenced to seven years in jail...
-- 2018-07-06 16:42:43
Doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara and six of his followers were executed Friday for their roles in a deadly 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subways and other crimes, closing a chapter on one of Japan&rs...
-- 2018-07-06 16:28:10
A former Thai navy diver has died while taking part in efforts to rescue 12 boys and their football coach trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand. Petty Officer Saman Gunan lost consciousness on his wa...
-- 2018-07-06 14:22:17
At least ten tourists were killed and 45 others are missing as a boat with Chinese tourists sank in a storm off the resort island of Phuket on Friday, officials said. Nine bodies of the Chinese touri...
-- 2018-07-05 21:56:35
Iran could reduce its co-operation with the UN nuclear watchdog, President Hassan Rouhani told the body's head on Wednesday, reports Reuters. He warned US President Donald Trump of "consequences" of...
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