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-- 2018-03-25 10:29:14
Police and politicians backed by the country’s former strongman President Mahinda Rajapaksa joined anti-Muslim riots that rocked Sri Lanka’s Kandy district this month, according to witne...
-- 2018-03-24 19:14:11
A powerful Indian politician was sentenced Saturday to 14 years in prison for embezzling 37 million rupees ($570,000) from a state government’s treasury while he was the state’s top electe...
-- 2018-03-24 18:49:49
Malaysian police have arrested seven men with links to the Islamic State militant group who were planning attacks on non-Muslim places of worship and other targets Inspector-General of Malaysian Poli...
-- 2018-03-24 17:58:04
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck on Saturday around 180 kilometres southwest of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake was measured at a depth of 60 km...
-- 2018-03-24 14:24:31
Two militants were killed in an overnight gunfight with contingents of police and army in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Saturday. The gunfight erupted Friday night at Shistargam loca...
-- 2018-03-24 13:10:43
An accidental blast in Afghanistan’s northern province of Faryab killed ten Taliban militants and injured four others, an army source said Saturday. The explosion took place roughly at 10:30 pm...
-- 2018-03-24 10:14:21
At least 14 people were killed and 50 others injured after a suspected suicide car bombing struck a sports stadium in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand on Friday evening. The blast occ...
-- 2018-03-23 19:02:22
China's media regulator is cracking down on video spoofs, the official Xinhua new agency reported, amid an intensified crackdown on any content that is deemed to be in violation of socialist core valu...
-- 2018-03-23 17:48:02
Vietnam has halted an oil drilling project in the “Red Emperor” block off its southeastern coast in South China Sea licensed following pressure from China. It would be the second time in...
-- 2018-03-23 14:59:45
At least five al-Qaida suspects were killed in an overnight US drone strike on a house in Yemen's central province of Marib, a provincial security official said on Friday. The drone strike hit the h...
-- 2018-03-23 14:48:29
Five people have been killed and at least 15 others injured in an explosion inside fireworks factory in Bihar state of India, officials said Friday. The blast took place inside the factory on Thur...
-- 2018-03-23 14:04:43
At least 13 people were killed and 27 others injured in a devastating fire at an apartment complex in Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam on Friday, officials said. “Most of the victims died from smoke...
-- 2018-03-23 13:34:53
At least nine Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in airstrikes in two Afghan provinces, officials said on Friday. Eight IS members were killed in Dih Bala district of Nangarhar province as th...
-- 2018-03-22 20:59:55
In an unprecedented deal, China has sold Pakistan a powerful tracking system which could speed up the development of multi-warhead missiles by its all-weather ally, the state-run Chinese Academy of Sc...
-- 2018-03-22 19:07:07
China has brought its frontier troops, including those guarding its border with India, directly under the military command removing civilian control over them, a state-run daily reported today. Commu...
-- 2018-03-22 18:44:23
Philippine police killed 13 suspected drug dealers and arrested more than 100 people in dozens of anti-narcotics operations on Wednesday in a province north of the capital, its police chief said. Mor...
-- 2018-03-22 18:13:05
Famous Iranian philosopher Dariush Shayegan, who advocated confronting the idea of Western thought dominating cultural and philosophical studies, died at the age of 83, Iranian state run IRNA news age...
-- 2018-03-22 16:20:29
A court in the northern Indian state of Jharkhand has sentenced 11 men to life in prison for lynching a Muslim meat trader last year. Alimuddin Ansari, 55, was beaten to death by the men for transpor...
-- 2018-03-22 14:52:04
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday Turkey’s military offensive in Syria’s northern town of Afrin was unacceptable and she criticized Russia for “just watching” t...
Reuters 2018-03-22 14:36:57
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen lifted a 45-day state of emergency on Thursday imposed amid political upheaval on the Indian Ocean island chain. “Though there still exists a diminished thre...
-- 2018-03-22 14:04:47
Five Indian soldiers and five suspected militants were killed in a gun fight near the de facto border between India and Pakistan in the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday, a senior police officia...
-- 2018-03-22 14:04:39
A chartered tour bus lost control on a downhill curve in Thailand's northeast and slid off the side of the road, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens more, reports said. In addition to the...
-- 2018-03-21 21:50:49
Authorities charged the Maldives’ former dictator, top judges and police officials with terrorism on Tuesday as the government deals with political turmoil that prompted a weeks-long state of em...
-- 2018-03-21 14:57:37
Israel for the first time confirmed that it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, saying on Wednesday that the strike removed a major threat to Israel and the region and was a “mess...
-- 2018-03-21 14:53:37
At least 26 people have been killed and 18 others wounded after a suicide bomber blew himself up near a Shi’ite shrine in Kabul on Wednesday, said officials. The explosion, near the shrine in t...
-- 2018-03-21 12:29:17
At least 19 passengers were killed and more than a dozen wounded after a commuter bus crashed into a ravine south of the Philippine capital, Manila, on Tuesday evening, police said. The bus hit a bri...
-- 2018-03-21 12:27:37
A sand mining vessel capsized off Malaysia in the Malacca Strait on Wednesday morning, leaving at least 10 crew members missing, Xinhua reported quoting Malaysian maritime officials. More to follow.....
-- 2018-03-21 12:26:33
An air strike by Turkish warplanes ‘neutralised’ at least 12 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, the military said on Twitter on Wednesday. The air s...
-- 2018-03-21 11:38:03
At least 35 civilians were killed in a rocket attack on a busy market in a government-held district of Syria's capital Damascus, state media report. Rebels in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region fired...
-- 2018-03-21 11:36:56
Myanmar's civilian president, Htin Kyaw, has resigned with immediate effect "in order to take rest from the current duties and responsibilities", his office said in a statement posted on Facebook on W...
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