-- 2018-05-26 10:28:45
The United States warned Syria it would take ‘firm and appropriate measures’ in response to ceasefire violations, saying it was concerned about reports of an impending military operation i...
-- 2018-05-25 21:05:45
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Bangladesh Bhavan is a symbol of cultural ties between Bangladesh and India and the two nations’ resolution to fight cruelty and terrorism together. &nbs...
-- 2018-05-25 18:38:29
Iraq's prime minister has ordered the creation of a high-powered commission to look into alleged irregularities in the parliamentary elections held May 12. An official statement said an emergency Cab...
-- 2018-05-25 16:36:46
Indonesia's parliament unanimously approved a tougher anti-terrorism law on Friday, lengthening detention periods and involving the military in counter-terrorism operations, spurred into action by rec...
-- 2018-05-25 12:34:04
A mob led by right-wing Muslim clerics tore down the dome and minarets of a 100-year old Pakistani mosque belonging to the marginalised Ahmadi community, officials and the community said on Thursday....
-- 2018-05-25 11:44:35
Malaysian police said on Friday that cash worth 114 million ringgit ($28.6 million) and over 400 luxury handbags were seized from several apartments as part of an anti-graft probe into a state fund...
Reuters 2018-05-25 10:03:07
North Korea responded on Friday with measured tones to US President Donald Trump’s decision to call off a historic summit with leader Kim Jong Un scheduled for next month, saying Pyongyang hoped...
-- 2018-05-24 22:22:02
Pakistan's lower house of Parliament has passed a landmark constitutional amendment extending widespread political, administrative and human rights reforms to the country's northwestern tribal areas,...
-- 2018-05-24 21:57:28
Mobs in southern India have killed at least five people and injured 20 on Thursday others amid social media rumours about "child kidnapping gangs". Police say the messages, which were being spread wi...
-- 2018-05-24 17:25:56
North Korea appears to have blown up tunnels at its only nuclear test site, in a move to reduce regional tensions. Foreign journalists at the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site said they witnessed a hug...
-- 2018-05-24 17:06:06
The missile that downed a Malaysia Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine in 2014 belonged to a Russian brigade, international investigators say. For the first time, the Dutch-led team said the missile...
-- 2018-05-24 13:57:08
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has set out a series of conditions for European powers if they want Tehran to stay in a nuclear deal after the US exit, including steps by European banks...
Reuters 2018-05-24 13:09:28
At first glance from above it looks like any clean and neatly planned small town, complete with sports grounds, neat roads and large civic buildings. But the town is on Subi reef in the Spratlys arc...
-- 2018-05-24 11:42:59
Former Malaysian premier Najib Razak, whose near 10-year rule ended two weeks ago, returned to an anti-graft agency on Thursday to resume his explanation for the suspicious transfers of $10.6 million...
-- 2018-05-23 22:59:39
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has announced to reduce salaries of cabinet ministers by 10 per cent. The ninety-two-year-old Mahathir made the announcement after his first cabinet meeting...
-- 2018-05-23 20:20:19
The Saudi Royal family has released a photograph of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman amid speculation he has been assassinated. Salman had not been seen since April 21 when Iranian media report...
-- 2018-05-23 17:36:14
Malaysia will review and possibly end its agreement with a private US firm searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, newly elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Wednesday. Flight MH370,...
-- 2018-05-23 14:10:08
Rohingya Muslim militants in Myanmar killed dozens of Hindu civilians during attacks last August, according to an investigation by Amnesty International. The group called Arsa killed up to 99 Hindu c...
-- 2018-05-23 11:51:59
North Korea has accepted a list of South Korean reporters to visit their nuclear testing site after a days-long tug of war with Seoul, South Korea’s unification ministry said on Wednesday. Nort...
-- 2018-05-22 20:57:04
US President Donald Trump and South Korea's Moon Jae-in are due to hold talks in Washington, amid uncertainty over a planned US-North Korea summit. Last week the North said it may cancel the summit i...
-- 2018-05-22 19:16:27
The US-made F-35 stealth fighter has seen its first ever combat action, flying in an operation for the Israeli air force. The air force chief showed an image of jets over Beirut, Lebanon, and said th...
-- 2018-05-22 17:12:03
India’s white-marble Taj Mahal is turning yellow and green as the 17th century mausoleum weathers filthy air in the world’s eighth-most polluted city. One of the seven Wonders of the Worl...
-- 2018-05-22 15:22:14
65 people have been killed as a heatwave swooped on in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi over the past three days, according to a social welfare organisation Tuesday statement. Fear looms as d...
Reuters 2018-05-22 15:06:07
About two dozen journalists from Western and Chinese news organisations arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to witness the closure of its nuclear test site, an indication that the shutdown will go ahead...
-- 2018-05-22 10:58:41
More than 800 people have been poisoned after eating toxic wild mushrooms in around 10 provinces in the west of Iran. At least 11 people have died from the effects of the fungi and hundreds more have...
-- 2018-05-22 10:43:40
Five people have been killed and 22 wounded by a Houthi missile fired at the Yemeni city of Marib, which falls under control of the internationally recognised government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour...
-- 2018-05-21 14:08:54
Malaysia has set up a special taskforce that will look into possible criminal conduct of individuals involved in the management of state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the prime minister&rs...
-- 2018-05-21 12:49:09
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was hospitalised in the West Bank on Sunday, doctors and Palestinian officials said, giving conflicting accounts of the leader’s condition. It is the third t...
-- 2018-05-21 11:15:04
The Philippines expressed ‘serious concerns’ over the presence of China’s strategic bombers in the disputed South China Sea and its foreign ministry has taken ‘appropriate dipl...
-- 2018-05-20 22:47:28
COLOMBO, May 20 (AP): Sri Lanka commemorated the ninth anniversary of the end of its civil war as a divided nation, with minority Tamils calling for an international investigation into alleged wartime...
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