Gunmen fatally shot at least seven people working on a strategic tunnel project in Indian-controlled Kashmir and injured at least five others, officials said yesterday.
Prabowo Subianto was inaugurated yesterday as the eighth president of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, completing his journey from an ex-general accused of rights abuses during
The defense ministers of Japan, the U.K. and Italy agreed to accelerate the joint development of a next-generation fighter jet, and announced that a trilateral government
A Vietnamese real estate tycoon was convicted yesterday of fraudulently obtaining property worth billions of dollars and sentenced to life in prison, in a case that has been
A British mountaineer who set the record as the youngest female to climb all the 14 tallest mountains in the world said yesterday that inexperienced climbers should not
Japan racked up a trade deficit of 294.3 billion yen ($2 billion) in September, according to Finance Ministry data released yesterday, as exports fell to key destinations like
The bodies of five Russian mountaineers who died on the world’s seventh-highest peak were retrieved from the mountain and flown to Kathmandu. The bodies were picked up
South Korea said yesterday it has detected signs that North Korea is preparing to destroy the northern parts of inter-Korean roads no longer in use, as the
A Sherpa teenager who became the youngest person to scale all the world’s 14 highest peaks returned home to Nepal yesterday to a hero’s welcome. Nima Rinji
The spectators were getting restless after hours of waiting when a drizzle began. But an announcer over scratchy loudspeakers urged them in Kannada, the language of India’s
Gunmen killed 21 miners and wounded six others in Pakistan’s southwest, a police official said this weekend, drawing condemnation from authorities as a search was launched for the
A senior politician in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, who was also known for his close ties with Bollywood has been shot dead weeks before a key state election.
South Korean author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature yesterday for what the Nobel committee called “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas
Indonesia’s immigration officers on the tourist island of Bali have arrested a Chinese suspect sought by Beijing for helping run over $14 billion investment scam to
Southeast Asian leaders gathered yesterday for an annual forum that will focus on the civil war in Myanmar and territorial tensions in the South China Sea, two
Japanese prosecutors this week said they will not appeal the acquittal of the world’s longest-serving death-row inmate in a retrial last month, bringing closure to the 1966 murder
A self-described Nazi will become the first person in Australia sentenced to prison for performing an outlawed Nazi salute when a magistrate sets his term next month.
Divers and marine experts found no evidence of a major fuel spill on a Samoan reef yesterday after a New Zealand navy ship ran aground and
India stepped up its development assistance to the Maldives after the two leaders held talks in New Delhi yesterday in a bid to repair strained ties that
South Korea and the Philippines, each faced by increasingly hostile rival nations, elevated their ties to a strategic partnership on Monday, including broader defense and security
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