-- 2018-02-19 18:07:49
Israel has successfully tested the country's advanced missile defence system capable of defending against ballistic missile threats outside the atmosphere. According to Israel Defence Ministry, The M...
-- 2018-02-19 15:30:31
Mount Sinabung volcano in Sumatra Island of Indonesia spewed columns of volcanic ash as high as about five kilometres into the air, as it erupted on Monday. Head of National Volcanology Agency Kasban...
-- 2018-02-19 15:06:07
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has sought parliamentary approval to extend a state of emergency for 15 days. Parliament’s Deputy Secretary General, Fathmath Niusha has told the legislature o...
-- 2018-02-19 13:03:30
An election candidate has been killed along with three other people after a landmine explosion occurred in India’s north-eastern state of Meghalaya, police said on Monday. The attack happened o...
-- 2018-02-19 11:37:26
Syrian Kurdish forces and the Damascus government have reached an agreement for the Syrian army to enter the Afrin region to help repel a Turkish offensive, a senior Kurdish official said. Badran Jia...
-- 2018-02-19 10:38:59
Swastika, a German Nazi symbol and profanities were found drawn on the entrance to Poland’s embassy in Israel on Sunday after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Jews, as well as Poles...
-- 2018-02-19 00:00:00
The United States has sketched out a path under which three key European allies would simply commit to try to improve the Iran nuclear deal over time in return for US President Donald Trump keeping th...
-- 2018-02-18 18:03:43
A team of Pakistani transgenders, for the first time in the country’s history, will serve as volunteers during 2018 hajj pilgrimage, a media report has said. According to the report, the transg...
-- 2018-02-18 14:05:29
All 66 passengers and crew aboard a plane have died as the plane crashed in central Iran on Sunday. The plane operated by Iranian carrier Aseman Airlines crashed in a mountainous area near the town o...
-- 2018-02-18 13:39:00
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly criticised his Polish counterpart on Saturday for saying the Jews were among the perpetrators in World War Two. Poland passed a law this month impos...
-- 2018-02-18 12:30:28
Australian authorities have issued a red alert warning as the tropical cyclone Kelvin has hammered the Western coast with deadly winds of up to 150 kilometres per hour on Sunday morning. In a warning...
-- 2018-02-18 11:56:27
Four Israeli soldiers have been wounded by an explosion that occurred near the border fence with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, spurring Israeli air strikes later in the day against Palestinian militant...
-- 2018-02-18 10:34:05
A fire broke out at the most important shrine in Tibetan Buddhism - the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa. Footage posted online showed flames billowing from the roof and what appeared to be at least one gu...
-- 2018-02-17 20:33:45
India and Iran said Saturday that they will work for restoring peace, stability, prosperity and a pluralistic system in war-wracked Afghanistan. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said they would st...
-- 2018-02-17 20:02:31
Thailand awarded Myanmar’s army chief a royal decoration on Friday amid allegations of crimes by Myanmar security forces against Rohingya Muslims. Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar&rsqu...
-- 2018-02-17 19:17:03
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday it would adhere to commitments under its 2015 international nuclear agreement. Iran signed the deal with six world powers to limit its disputed...
-- 2018-02-17 17:36:15
A court in Pakistan has given a 24-year-old man, Imran Ali, four death sentences for raping and murdering a six-year old girl last month. Zainab Ansari's body was found in a rubbish dump in the city...
-- 2018-02-17 12:38:05
A cooking gas cylinder blast has killed at least five persons and over injured over 20 in western Indian state of Rajasthan, local media reports said on Saturday. The incident happened in the state's...
-- 2018-02-17 11:27:18
A mild earthquake measuring 4.6 on Richter scale shook Hmawbi Township in Myanmar's Yangon region on Saturday morning. The country's Meteorology and Hydrology Department said in a press release that...
-- 2018-02-17 10:23:03
Nine people have been killed after a fierce fire broke out at a waste processing facility in southern China’s Qingyuan city in the early hours of Saturday morning. A Xinhua news agency report s...
-- 2018-02-16 20:18:23
Seven workers died of suffocation Friday while cleaning an underground drainage pit at a poultry farm in southern India, police said. Deputy Superintendent of Police Chowdesari said the deaths occurr...
-- 2018-02-16 18:25:36
Police in India have arrested a woman who allegedly posed as a man and duped two women into marriage for dowry. Krishna Sen was arrested on Wednesday in the northern state of Uttarakhand for demandin...
-- 2018-02-16 17:34:50
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi could be held accountable for crimes against humanity, said UN Special Envoy Yanghee Lee in an interview with the UK’s Channel 4 News. She said that Suu Kyi cou...
-- 2018-02-16 15:26:13
Pakistan army has destroyed an Indian army post in the Himalayan region of Kashmir and killed five Indian soldiers, after Indian sniper fire struck a school van, killing the driver, officials said....
-- 2018-02-16 14:55:50
Turkey has proposed to the United States that Kurdish YPG fighters withdraw to east of the Euphrates river in Syria and that Turkish and US troops be stationed together in the country’s Manbij a...
-- 2018-02-15 21:55:46
As five Myanmar journalists were sentenced to decade-long prison terms for reporting the alleged existence of a military-run chemical weapons factory in Myanmar a few years ago, Aung San Suu Kyi &ndas...
-- 2018-02-15 20:15:55
Israel inflicted heavy damage on Gaza's infrastructure four years ago during a bruising 50-day war with Hamas militants. Now, fearing a humanitarian disaster on its doorstep, it's appealing to the wo...
-- 2018-02-15 13:53:48
Nepal's prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has resigned Thursday after his party lost parliamentary elections, paving the way for a new government. He made the announcement a day after the resul...
-- 2018-02-15 12:10:59
The Taliban said, in a rare statement to the American people that they want to end Afghanistan’s 17-year war through talks, while warning the message should not be seen as a sign of weakness and...
-- 2018-02-15 11:03:48
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump agreed to keep up pressure on North Korea until Pyongyang abandons its nuclear and missile programs, Japan’s foreign ministry sai...
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