Several hundred Buddhist nationalists, including monks, rallied in Myanmar’s largest city on Wednesday to urge stronger action against insurgents from the Muslim Rohingya minority for attacks
A five-story building collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, killing 12 people and injuring 14 others yesterday, after torrential rains lashed the country’s west. Another
The language from North Korea on Wednesday is as familiar as it is chilling, a declaration to the world to expect more missile tests. But there
The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile over Japan yesterday , reiterating demands that Pyongyang halt its ballistic missile and
Japan’s deputy prime minister yesterday retracted a comment made a day earlier that seemed to suggest that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had good intentions. Taro Aso was
U.S. President Donald Trump said that North Korea had signaled its “contempt for its neighbors” and that “all options are on the table” in terms of
In a first, North Korea yesterday fired a midrange ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload that flew over Japan and splashed into the northern Pacific Ocean,
The foreign ministers of Russia and the United Arab Emirates urged North Korea yesterday to stop its provocations and obey United Nations resolutions, after Pyongyang’s launch
China has urged all countries involved in the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula to show restraint and end a “malicious cycle” of escalating tensions. Chinese
A would-be suicide bomber was sentenced to seven and a half years prison for plotting to bomb a guard-changing ceremony at Indonesia’s presidential palace in Jakarta, her lawyer said
Some 50 bankers were on trial yesterday in Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi for alleged graft and mismanagement causing USD69 million in losses. The case is
A small but growing army of often elderly men and women regularly swing South Korean banners and scream outrage at the jailing of a woman they consider their
Interpol has issued an international request for the arrest of the billionaire heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune, stepping up of the hunt for the
Myanmar’s government and advocates for the country’s Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority traded charges yesterday of killing civilians, burning down buildings and planting land mines, as clashes that
Thousands of supporters of an Indian quasi-religious sect leader left his headquarters in northern India yesterday as authorities relaxed a curfew a day ahead of his sentencing
Friends and foes alike of former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are anxiously awaiting a verdict today by the Supreme Court on charges she was criminally negligent
India’s top court ruled yesterday that privacy is a fundamental right of every citizen in a landmark judgment that could affect the country’s mammoth, unique
The collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker has exposed a long-simmering dispute between Singapore and Malaysia over which country should
As North Korea vowed “merciless retaliation” against U.S.-South Korean military drills that it claims are an invasion rehearsal, senior U.S. military commanders yesterday dismissed calls to pause
Japan’s new foreign minister is a reputed renegade, famous for bashing his ruling party’s policies with stands against nuclear power and for stricter checks on foreign aid.
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