Nearly 600 people died in Indian police custody from 2009-2015, many after being tortured, a human rights group said yesterday, urging India to implement a string of often-ignored regulations
The jailed confidante of disgraced South Korean President Park Geun- hye denied on the first day of her trial yesterday that she used her ties to the president to extort money from
An Indonesian military transport plane crashed in bad weather yesterday in the country’s easternmost province of Papua, killing all 13 people on board, officials said. The Hercules C-130
New Zealand’s new Prime Minister Bill English has overhauled the government’s ministerial team in the wake of John Key’s shock resignation. English confirmed that Steven Joyce would be
The jailed confidante of disgraced South Korean President Park Geun-hye begins a trial today that will explore a scandal that led to Park’s impeachment after millions took to the
The United States said yesterday it will work with the Philippine president to address any concerns after he threatened to terminate a pact that allows U.S. troops to
The leaders of Russia and Japan held talks at a hot springs resort in western Japan yesterday on a territorial dispute that has divided their countries for 70
A female would-be suicide bomber arrested last week one day before her planned attack in Indonesia’s capital said she took orders from Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian with the Islamic State
The Philippine justice secretary says President Rodrigo Duterte often exaggerates killings of criminals he supposedly carried out to send a chilling warning to lawbreakers. Vitaliano Aguirre II told
A U.S. military Osprey aircraft crash-landed off Japan’s southern island of Okinawa after its propeller was damaged during refueling training, and all five crewmembers were rescued, the U.S. Marine
They toil high on scaffolding, pouring concrete and twisting iron bars. At night, they squeeze into shipping containers with their husbands by the dozens to get some
A Myanmar journalist was killed yesterday while reporting on illegal logging in the northwest of the country, police said. “The journalist who was killed was working for
The Philippine defense chief yesterday rejected a demand by communist guerrillas for government troops to withdraw from rebel-influenced communities in the countryside for the insurgents to extend a months-long cease-fire. Defense
Singapore and Malaysia signed a final agreement to build a high-speed rail that will link the city-state to Kuala Lumpur by December 2026. The accord was signed yesterday
South Korea’s conservative ruling party is on the verge of a split following President Park Geun-hye’s parliamentary impeachment last week. Kim Moo-sung, leader of anti-Park lawmakers in the
The minority Christian governor of Indonesia’s capital sobbed in court yesterday on the first day of his blasphemy trial as he recalled the role of Muslim godparents in his
A lone survey vessel has left an Australian port for perhaps the final time to search for the Malaysian airliner that mysteriously crashed into the southern Indian
In the 1990s, Nyo Ko Naing noticed that the handful of foreign tourists who made it to his remote hometown were carrying their own maps and
There’s nothing flashy about Bill English. Critics say the former finance minister and farmer who became New Zealand’s prime minister yesterday is downright boring. But English hopes his steadiness
South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, who had a largely ceremonial job until President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment last week, now must face off against North Korea and
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