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-- 2018-10-05 17:50:48
Leader of the opposition in the Pakistan national assembly Shahbaz Sharif was arrested on Friday in a corruption case. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) of Pakistan arrested the former Punjab...
-- 2018-10-05 17:02:32
An airstrike by security forces killed four people and wounded eight others who were part of a wedding procession in the southeast province of Kandahar, officials said on Friday. Abdul Raziq, the Kan...
-- 2018-10-05 13:30:42
A Seoul court on Friday jailed former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak for 15 years for corruption, making him the latest in a string of high-profile political and business leaders ensnared by gra...
-- 2018-10-05 11:59:29
Pakistan on Thursday has ordered 18 international aid agencies to shut down operations and leave the country, said the ActionAid charity, in what would be Islamabad’s latest move against foreign...
-- 2018-10-04 15:10:20
India's top court is allowing the first deportations of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar since it ordered their identification last year. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea by attorney Prashant...
-- 2018-10-04 11:32:23
Six rescue divers have drowned while trying to save a teenager from a disused mining pool in Malaysia. They were searching for a 17-year-old boy who is thought to have fallen into the body of water w...
-- 2018-10-04 10:20:06
The European Union is considering trade sanctions on Myanmar over the Rohingya crisis, potentially stripping the country of tariff-free access to the world’s largest trading bloc, three EU offic...
-- 2018-10-03 12:40:31
Australia will remove a controversial tax on female sanitary products following years of campaigning by women's groups. Currently, tampons and sanitary pads are sold with a 10 per cent goods and serv...
-- 2018-10-03 10:13:34
Hundreds of patients were evacuated safely on Wednesday after a fire broke out in the pharmacy building of the Kolkata Medical College and Hospital, officials said. At least ten fire engines were p...
-- 2018-10-02 13:36:14
Southeast Asian foreign ministers urged Myanmar to give a commission of inquiry into the violence in Rakhine state full mandate to hold those who are responsible accountable, Singapore said on Tuesday...
Reuters 2018-10-02 13:28:46
The confirmed death toll from an earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has risen to 1,234, from 844, the national disaster mitigation agency said on Tuesday. A 7.5 magnitude ear...
-- 2018-10-02 11:40:05
North Korea said on Tuesday that declaring the end of the 1950-53 Korean War “can never be a bargaining chip” for getting North Korea denuclearised, and said the country “will not pa...
-- 2018-10-02 11:25:25
The extent of the devastation caused by an earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi should become clearer on Tuesday as rescuers push into remote areas that have been out of contact...
-- 2018-10-02 11:15:56
At least 42 people have died after drinking contaminated bootleg alcohol in Iran, a government spokesman said. Health ministry spokesman Iraj Harirchi said 16 people had gone blind and 170 had underg...
-- 2018-10-01 17:25:10
Australia has described the situations in Myanmar's Rakhine, Shan and Kachin states 'deeply disturbing' and condemned the atrocities committed. During the 39th session of the United Nations Human Rig...
-- 2018-10-01 16:56:40
The unit 4 of China's Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant being constructed with technical assistance from Atomstroyexpor (ASE), Engineering Division of Rosatom, Russia, is going into operation soon. The fir...
-- 2018-10-01 11:41:58
A picture of large scale destruction is emerging in the Indonesian city of Palu, after a quake and tsunami struck on Friday. At least 832 people are confirmed to have died but the figure is expected...
-- 2018-10-01 11:01:45
A powerful typhoon brought down trees onto railroad tracks and kicked up debris across Tokyo as it brushed past the Japanese capital early on Monday, killing two people and stranding thousands as trai...
-- 2018-09-30 20:57:37
Special courts set up in a drive against financial crime have sentenced three people to death, state television reported Sunday, as the country faces renewed US sanctions and a public outcry against p...
-- 2018-09-30 16:48:20
Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said Malaysia will no longer support the leadership of Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi for her role over the Rohingya crisis in her country. Mahathi...
-- 2018-09-30 13:50:47
The toll from an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia soared on Sunday to 832 confirmed dead, with authorities fearing it will only climb as rescuers struggle to reach outlying communities cut off from...
-- 2018-09-30 13:14:07
Kurds began voting in a parliamentary election in their semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq on Sunday, a year after a failed bid for independence. With opposition parties weak, the Kurdistan Demo...
-- 2018-09-30 10:32:44
More than 400 people were confirmed killed, many swept away as tsunami waves triggered by a massive earthquake crashed into the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, and authorities expected the toll to rise...
-- 2018-09-29 18:27:59
Israeli soldiers shot dead seven Palestinians, including two boys, who were among thousands of people who thronged to the fortified Gaza Strip border on Friday as part of weekly protests launched half...
-- 2018-09-29 17:54:24
The Elections Commission of Maldives has officially declared opposition leader Ibrahim Mohamed Solih winner of the country’s national election. Solih defeated incumbent president Abdulla Yameen...
-- 2018-09-29 11:57:08
Israeli soldiers shot dead seven Palestinians, including two boys, who were among thousands of people who thronged to the fortified Gaza Strip border on Friday as part of weekly protests launched half...
-- 2018-09-29 10:38:07
The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi jumped to 384 on Saturday, authorities said, with many of those killed swept away by giant waves as they played on t...
-- 2018-09-28 18:43:56
A major 7.7 magnitude earth quake struck off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday, prompting a tsunami alert hours after a milder quake brought down houses in the same area, and officials expec...
-- 2018-09-28 16:43:26
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted for the first time that extrajudicial killings had happened under his government’s brutal war on drugs. Duterte came up with the statement in a...
-- 2018-09-28 14:20:47
The Rohingya issue should not be complicated, expanded or "internationalised", China's top diplomat said, as the United Nations prepares to set up a body to prepare evidence of human rights abuses in...
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