Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe landed yesterday in Tehran on a mission to ease tensions between the U.S. and Iran, just hours after Iranian-backed rebels
Australia’s opposition yesterday called for a parliamentary inquiry into press freedom after police raids on a media organization’s Sydney headquarters and a journalist’s Canberra home seeking
Indian authorities evacuated tens of thousands of people yesterday as a severe cyclone in the Arabian Sea approached the western state of Gujarat, lashing the coast with
South Korean agencies said yesterday they could not confirm a report that the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was a U.S. intelligence
A Thai construction tycoon yesterday was sentenced to an additional one year in prison for bribing a park ranger in relation to a high-profile case of poaching endangered
A human rights group said yesterday it has identified hundreds of spots where witnesses claim North Korea carried out public executions and extrajudicial state killings as part
With its bare cells, the Tokyo Detention House looks much like a high-security prison, but most of those who get incarcerated here, including former Nissan Chairman
A court yesterday convicted six Hindu men, including four police officials, in connection with the rape and murder of an 8-year-old Muslim girl in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and three of his former colleagues yesterday took their fight against being extradited to the U.S. to New Zealand’s top court.
Girish Karnad, a top Indian playwright, actor and director and a rights activist, died yesterday after a prolonged illness. He was 81. India’s president and the prime
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a visit to Sri Lanka yesterday as part of his first overseas tour since being reelected this spring, emphasizing India’s “neighborhood first”
A global rights group yesterday welcomed Bhutan’s move toward becoming the latest South Asian nation to decriminalize homosexuality. The tiny Himalayan kingdom’s lower house of Parliament voted
Retrieving the bodies of five climbers of an international team from a notoriously dangerous Himalayan mountain isn’t immediately possible because helicopters are having difficulty operating due
Australian prosecutors argued in court yesterday that child sex convictions against a Roman Catholic cardinal should not be overturned and said his accuser had been a
A New Zealand judge ruled yesterday that media outlets can now show the face of the man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques.
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha isn’t feeling chatty about being elected to stay on as premier. Prayuth stayed out of the spotlight yesterday, a
Thailand’s Parliament convened yesterday for a vote that is expected to keep Prayuth Chan-ocha as prime minister five years after he seized power in a military
Australia’s Federal Police raided the offices of the national public broadcaster yesterday in connection to a 2017 story based on leaked military documents that indicated the
North Korea will temporarily suspend the latest edition of its famous mass games, which involve thousands of performers working in precise synchronization, after the premiere
Indian authorities are continuing to search for an air force plane that went missing on Monday near the border with China. The navy tweeted yesterday
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