The most senior Vatican cleric to ever be charged in the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal returned to Australia yesterday to stand trial in his
Police are patrolling for poachers as rhinoceros, deer and wild buffalo move to higher ground to escape floods devastating parts of northeast India, including a
Pakistan summoned India’s deputy high commissioner in Islamabad Sunday after five civilians were killed by “unprovoked” Indian fire across the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region.
Police in northern Vietnam have seized nearly 3 tons of ivory smuggled from South Africa in the latest action taken against the illegal trade. Thanh Hoa provincial police
Cambodia’s National Assembly passed a bill yesterday barring political parties from having links with convicted criminals, a move aimed at keeping the opposition Cambodia National Rescue
Indonesian police said yesterday that a man whose home-made bomb accidentally exploded in the West Java city of Bandung was obsessed with the idea of joining Islamic
With his government’s approval ratings sinking to their lowest level since he returned to power in 2012, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he will reshuffle
A group of wealthy businessmen, a Buddhist priest and other social higher-ups on trial in Sri Lanka for allegedly keeping illegally captured elephants may get their
President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday he will likely extend 60 days of martial law he imposed in the southern Philippines to deal with a deadly siege of
The death toll from heavy rain and flooding in southern Japan this week has risen to 15, officials said Saturday, as rescue workers reached isolated villages
Australia will press ahead with a missile defense program to protect its forces, but a U.S. shield system isn’t appropriate, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.
One reason North Korea is the world’s most dire nuclear hotspot is that among the most important players, even allies and semi-allies have different desires and priorities.
Troops were working yesterday to rescue families left stranded by flooding in southern Japan. At least two people were found dead and more than a dozen
The leaders of the European Union and Japan are lauding their agreement in principle on free trade between the economic juggernauts as the best antidote against the protectionism seen
When prominent Bangladeshi writer, columnist and government critic Farhad Mazhar went out to buy medicines, he was dragged into a car and taken away. He
A strong, shallow earthquake shook the central Philippines yesterday, injuring dozens of people, including at least 10 in a collapsed building, knocking out power in some areas and
Cambodia has deported more than 70 Chinese citizens accused of defrauding people back home in an internet scam. Gen. Ouk Haiseila, chief of the Cambodian Interior
Resorts World Manila, the Philippine casino where 38 people died after an arson attack last month, aims to complete a new gaming zone this year as
A small plane with five people on board went missing yesterday in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua, officials said. The PT Associated Mission Aviation plane went missing on
The decapitated bodies of two Vietnamese crewmen abducted last year by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants were found yesterday on the southern Philippine island of Basilan, the
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