Southeast Asian leaders and Australia’s prime minister yesterday called on North Korea to end its nuclear program and urged U.N. countries to fully implement sanctions against the country. Leaders
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said Duterte did not decide to withdraw from the Rome Statute, which established the international tribunal, to escape accountability but to
Pakistani lawmakers in a provincial assembly have voted in favor of a ban on dance parties at schools and other educational institutions, saying they promote Western
Authorities in Nepal are struggling to identify the survivors of a deadly plane crash earlier this week, with many of the injured badly burned,
President Rodrigo Duterte announced yesterday that the Philippines is withdrawing its ratification of a treaty that created the International Criminal Court, where he is facing
Prosecutors yesterday were questioning South Korea’s conservative former President Lee Myung- bak over corruption allegations, making him the latest of the country’s leaders entangled in scandal. The
Myanmar’s government yesterday rejected two reports presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council that concluded it committed extreme human rights violations, probably amounting to crimes
Hawaii officials have repeatedly pointed to a low-level state employee and a breakdown in his agency’s leadership as the main cause for a January missile alert that
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with South Korea’s intelligence chief yesterday, and said that while he welcomes any dialogue with North Korea regarding the country’s denuclearization,
A plane carrying 71 people from Bangladesh swerved erratically and flew dangerously low before crashing and erupting in flames as it landed yesterday in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital,
Trump administration officials say there will be no more conditions imposed on North Korea before a first-ever meeting of the two nation’s leaders beyond the
Bangladesh’s High Court yesterday granted bail for four months to opposition leader and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who was jailed for five years on a corruption
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev chose Reykjavik, Iceland. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin huddled at Yalta. Dwight Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev
From their home, a tent hastily erected in a grassy field, the young Muslim Rohingya couple can see the village they left behind last year, fleeing attacks
Thousands of East Timorese lined the road to the capital’s international airport yesterday to cheer returning independence hero Xanana Gusmao for leading negotiations that settled the sea
They bowed their heads, hands clasped or palms firmly pressed together. They stood in grassy areas or roadsides overlooking the choppy sea. In Japan’s capital, they lit
Buddhist mobs swept through Muslim neighborhoods in Sri Lanka’s central hills, destroying stores and restaurants and setting homes on fire despite a curfew, a state of emergency
China needs to build defensive structures on islands in the South China Sea to display its claim to sovereignty over virtually the entire crucial waterway, a leading
South Korea’s president said yesterday that many “critical moments” still lie ahead to end the nuclear crisis despite North Korea’s recent outreach to Seoul and Washington.
The Japanese government is slapping penalties on several cryptocurrency exchanges in the country, after 58 billion yen (USD530 million) of virtual coins were lost earlier this
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