North Korea has been condemned and sanctioned for its nuclear ambitions, yet has still received food, fuel and other aid from its neighbors and adversaries for decades.
While North Korea’s second launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile dominated headlines late last week, Pyongyang quietly unveiled renovations around the capital’s biggest landmark: a futuristic, pyramid-shaped
A legal battle over secret letters revealing what Queen Elizabeth II knew of her Australian representative’s stunning plan to dismiss Australia’s government in 1975 opened in federal court
When Indian architect Rahul Maini and his parents embarked on their first trip abroad in May, Singapore was their destination of choice. But the trio wasn’t
Pakistan’s parliament will meet tomorrow to elect a new prime minister after the disqualification of three-term prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League party, which
The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula yesterday in a show of force against North Korea following the country’s latest intercontinental ballistic
Police disrupted the first alleged plot in Australia to bring down an airplane and arrested four men in raids on Sydney homes, officials said yesterday.
She dances beneath 10-foot portraits of two smiling dictators, a modern young woman in a central Pyongyang plaza who twirls to music calling on North Koreans
Police in the southern Philippines said they fatally shot 15 people yesterday, including a city mayor who was among the politicians President Rodrigo Duterte publicly linked
It was a woolly ride, but three wild rabbits managed to escape rising floodwaters in New Zealand by clambering aboard sheep and surfing to safety on their backs.
The leader of Japan’s main opposition party said she is stepping down, citing her failure to regain voter support despite a series of scandals buffeting the ruling
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said yesterday that he supports a proposed free trade agreement between the United Kingdom and Australia, as his country looks to strengthen
Human rights groups asked the Philippine president yesterday to retract a threat to order airstrikes against tribal schools he accused of teaching students to become communist rebels, warning such
Outside governments yesterday asked the Maldives to restore its legislature's independence, days after the opposition said parliament was locked down on orders from the president in an attempt to
Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose bank accounts were frozen this week, says she will fight to prove her innocence as a trial that could put her
Sri Lanka's government deployed army troops yesterday to restore fuel distribution crippled during a strike launched by trade unions who want to stop leases of oil tanks
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson assured concerned Australian tech entrepreneurs yesterday that they will be welcome to continue working in his country after it leaves the European Union. Johnson
A blind Aboriginal musician renowned for singing in his native Yolngu language with a heart-rending voice and a unique guitar-playing style has died, his recording label said yesterday.
In the late 1980s, Pakistani clerics beseeched Indonesia to pray for them after Benazir Bhutto became prime minister and the first woman to govern a Muslim majority
A Vietnamese court yesterday sentenced an activist to nine years in prison on charges of producing videos that defamed the country’s leadership, in the latest crackdown on dissent.
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