Russia is preparing for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s first summit with President Vladimir Putin, setting the stage for consultations between the long-time allies after
Philippine police yesterday arrested four women they said were wives of Abu Sayyaf commanders who took care of their financial transactions, helped procure guns and bomb parts
New Zealand’s foreign minister confirmed yesterday that a New Zealand nurse has been held captive by the Islamic State group in Syria for almost six years,
Malaysia’s prime minister said yesterday a Chinese company building a rail link across the Southeast Asian nation will jointly help to manage and operate the network,
Six months after Palu was ripped apart by an earthquake, tsunami and liquefying soil that sucked neighborhoods into the earth and killed thousands, a second crisis
In a major reversal, South Korea’s Constitutional Court yesterday ordered the easing of the country’s decades-old ban on most abortions, one of the strictest in the
Archaeologists who discovered fossil bones and teeth of a previously unknown human species that thrived more than 50,000 years ago in the northern Philippines said yesterday they
North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly is expected to convene tday to formally approve leader Kim Jong Un’s latest economic policies and possibly endorse a shift in
The lawyers for Nissan’s former Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who was sent back to detention while out on bail, filed a protest with the Japanese Supreme Court
The wife of Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak was hit yesterday with a new corruption charge over a solar energy contract. Rosmah Mansor pleaded not
More families of victims of the Lion Air crash in Indonesia are suing Boeing Co. after its chief executive apologized and said a software update for the
The leaders of neighboring Singapore and Malaysia agreed yesterday to amicably resolve a long-running dispute over water that has stoked tensions for decades. In a
Indian authorities charged a Roman Catholic bishop yesterday with repeatedly raping a nun in her rural convent, a case that helped make the sexual abuse of nuns
Thai police said a local man has been arrested on suspicion of raping and killing a German tourist on the island of Koh Si Chang in the
New Zealand’s official privacy watchdog yesterday described Facebook as “morally bankrupt” and suggested his country follow neighboring Australia’s lead by making laws that could jail executives over
Korean Air’s chairman, whose leadership included scandals such as his daughter’s infamous incident of “nut rage,” has died due to illness, the company said yesterday.
India’s ruling party released its election manifesto yesterday, three days before the start of a multi-phase general election in the world’s largest democracy. Prime Minister Narendra
The leader of a popular new Thai political party that ran a strong third in last month’s general election was formally charged with sedition on Saturday
Three hostages held by Muslim militants in the southern Philippines have made a daring escape that left one drowned, another shot in the back in critical
Nepal’s president, top officials and diplomats gathered recently at army grounds in central Kathmandu for an annual horse festival that marks the slaying of the Hindu Gurumapa
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