The top security officials from India and Pakistan held talks in Thailand’s capital yesterday, signaling a resumption of the rival countries’ on-again, off-again peace dialogue. The South Asian neighbors’ national security
The heaviest rainfall in more than 100 years has devastated swathes of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, with thousands forced to leave their submerged homes and schools, offices
The deep sea hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner has been refocused on the southern reaches of an expansive search zone based on new analysis released yesterday of the Boeing
A Cambodian court sentenced an unlicensed medical practitioner to 25 years in prison yesterday after finding him responsible for infecting more than 100 villagers with HIV, the virus that causes
So you’re thinking of taking an exotic vacation, having a little adventure and coming back with lots of stories for your envious friends and colleagues. Believe it or not, North
Weeks of torrential rains have forced an airport in southern India to close and have cut off several roads and highways, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded in their
Nearly a month after her party’s resounding election win, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi held closed-door talks with Myanmar’s outgoing president yesterday to discuss what both said they hope
Australia’s weather bureau has refused to comment on a media report that it has been hacked in a major cyberattack that compromised sensitive systems across the federal government. Australian Broadcasting
A Philippine court yesterday convicted a U.S. Marine of killing a Filipino last year after he discovered she was a transgender woman in a hotel in the Philippines while he
The National Transportation Safety Committee said an analysis of Flight 8501’s data recorder showed the rudder control system had sent repeated warnings to the pilots during the Dec. 28 flight
South Korea’s parliament yesterday approved a free trade pact with China after opposition lawmakers secured a USD1.4 billion relief package for farmers. The ratification, which comes five months after the trade pact was
Friends of two Australian tourists missing for more than a week in Mexico are looking to work with authorities in determining what happened to the men following a report that
A Malaysian military officer who was extradited to New Zealand after earlier leaving the country under the protection of diplomatic immunity pleaded guilty yesterday to indecent assault. Muhammad Rizalman Ismail faces
J apan’s whaling fleet will leave today for the Antarctic for a three-month, scaled-down hunt, the government said, despite protests from opponents who say Tokyo has not proven that whales need to
World Rugby Chairman Bernard Lapasset led the tributes to Jonah Lomu at a public memorial yesterday, saying the former All Blacks winger was a giant whose contribution to the sport
Many of his students are Kims. So are his fellow teachers, an elementary school alumnus and the owners of restaurants and pubs that he patronizes in his small farming village.
A North Korean launch of a ballistic missile from a submarine appears to have failed, Yonhap News reported, underscoring the technological limitations of the isolated nation’s weapons program. The launch was
The Philippines on Saturday took delivery of two Korean-made fighter jets — the country’s first supersonic combat aircraft in a decade — as it strengthens its underfunded military amid an
Japan’s deputy defense minister met with the mayor of a southern island yesterday to seek his support for the planned deployment of hundreds of troops in the region including nearby disputed
Firefighters contained a large wildfire yesterday that had caused at least two deaths, 13 injuries and destroyed at least 16 homes near the southern Australian city of Adelaide, officials said. Two
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