-- 2018-11-29 11:53:10
A Philippine court on Thursday sentenced three police officers to up to 49 years in jail for the murder of a 17-year-old high school student, the first to be convicted in President Rodrigo Duterte&rsq...
-- 2018-11-28 21:24:50
India will not attend the upcoming SAARC summit to be held in Pakistan, possibly early next year. Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj gave the information on Wednesday, a day after Islamabad's invi...
-- 2018-11-28 19:08:57
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman landed in Buenos Aires of Argentina on Wednesday for the G20 summit of industrialised nations. Reuters reports, the crown prince is paying the vi...
-- 2018-11-28 16:35:53
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has formed a 12-strong negotiating team to seek a peace agreement that would include the Taliban in a democratic and inclusive society that respects the rights of wo...
-- 2018-11-28 11:45:14
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 struck off the east coast of Japan’s northern Aomori Prefecture, the weather agency said on Wednesday. According to the Japan Meteorological Ag...
Reuters 2018-11-28 10:17:58
A blast near a chemical plant in Zhangjiakou city in China’s northern Hebei province early on Wednesday killed 22 people and injured at least 22 others, the local government said. A video of th...
-- 2018-11-27 14:44:04
At least seven Taliban militants were killed and a Taliban bomb making factory was destroyed following a NATO-led coalition forces' airstrike in southern Afghan province of Kandahar overnight, local p...
-- 2018-11-27 12:17:22
Myanmar authorities seized a boat carrying 93 Rohingyas while they were fleeing displacement camps in western Myanmar's Rakhine State and hoping to reach Malaysia, an official said on Tuesday. The bo...
-- 2018-11-27 11:30:21
Countries must hit China with sanctions over the mass detention of ethnic Uighurs in its western Xinjiang region, hundreds of scholars said on Monday, warning that a failure to act would signal accept...
-- 2018-11-26 19:55:06
The Maldives Supreme Court on Monday cancelled 13-year jail sentence awarded for former president Mohamed Nasheed after a review of the controversial terrorism conviction. The top court said the isla...
-- 2018-11-26 17:32:18
Turkish police are carrying out inspections at a villa in a north-western province in relation to the investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The state-run Anadolu news ag...
-- 2018-11-26 14:13:28
At least 22 police were killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah late on Sunday, officials said, adding to the growing casualty toll on Afghan security forces fighti...
-- 2018-11-26 11:50:42
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck western Iran near its border with Iraq on Sunday night, injuring more than 500 people and sending fearful residents running into the streets, authorities said. The S...
Reuters 2018-11-26 11:01:20
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Bahrain on Sunday, continuing his first trip abroad since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul drew global condemnatio...
-- 2018-11-25 17:32:57
Voters in Taiwan have rejected legalising same-sex marriages in a series of referendums on Saturday. They backed the definition of marriage as the union of a man and woman. Last year a high court ha...
Reuters 2018-11-25 14:34:56
The office of former Malaysian premier Najib Razak ordered changes to a 2016 audit report of scandal-plagued state fund 1MDB, including removing mention of financier Low Taek Jho’s presence at a...
Reuters 2018-11-25 13:21:15
Voters in Taiwan have delivered a strong rebuke to the island’s pro-independence ruling party in local elections, emboldening the China-friendly opposition, one of whose main figures says he wil...
Reuters 2018-11-25 10:10:21
A senior Saudi prince cast doubt upon the reported CIA finding that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, saying the agency c...
-- 2018-11-24 16:48:36
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday called Israel a "cancerous tumour" established by Western countries to advance their interests in the Middle East. Iran's leaders frequently condemn Israel...
-- 2018-11-24 11:23:56
Two people were killed and 24 others injured in an explosion at a machinery plant in the northern Chinese province of Jilin, the local government said on Saturday. At least 41 houses were damaged in...
-- 2018-11-24 10:50:42
South Korea said on Saturday it had received sanctions exemptions from the UN Security Council for a joint survey on inter-Korean rail. It is the first step towards implementing an inter-Korean agree...
Reuters 2018-11-24 10:27:15
South Korea said on Saturday it had received sanctions exemptions from the UN Security Council for a joint survey on inter-Korean rail. It is the first step towards implementing an inter-Korean agree...
-- 2018-11-23 22:06:17
Afghan parents are selling their children to feed family members after a four-year drought wiped away their harvest and forced them from their homes in the western city of Herat, according to the New...
FE Online Desk 2018-11-23 20:52:07
Migrants are entitled to the same human rights and protections as anyone else, said IOM Regional Director Argentina Szabados at the inaugural Asian Human Rights conference that ended on Friday. Digni...
-- 2018-11-23 20:46:20
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday at the start of a tour of several Arab countries. This visit is his first foreign trip since the...
-- 2018-11-23 18:42:36
A suicide blast at a mosque in an army base in eastern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 26 people and wounded 50, security officials in the area said, although there was no immediate claim of res...
-- 2018-11-23 18:19:44
Gunmen have killed at least four people in an attack on the Chinese consulate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. Gunshots were heard at about 09:30 local time (04:30 GMT) outside the consulate in...
Reuters 2018-11-23 15:58:42
A suicide bomb attack on a crowded festival and market in northwest Pakistan’s northwest killed at least 25 people on Friday and wounded 20, a government official said. The blast occurred at ar...
-- 2018-11-23 12:31:38
A modified Boeing 737 has been used to fight a wildfire for the first time, said Australian authorities. The former passenger jet was deployed as a water-bombing aircraft in New South Wales on Thursd...
-- 2018-11-23 11:45:46
Two policemen have been killed and a security guard injured in an armed attack on the Chinese consulate in the Pakistani coastal city of Karachi on Friday. Gunshots was heard at about 09:30 local tim...
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