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A Somali refugee who alleged she was raped in Nauru will be flown to Australia for a second time to potentially have an abortion, Australia’s government said yesterday, a day
A Communist leader who has long campaigned for women’s rights was elected yesterday as Nepal’s first female president. Bidhya Devi Bhandari of the Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist-Leninist received 327
Rescuers were struggling to reach quake-stricken regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan yesterday as officials said the combined death toll from the previous day’s earthquake rose to 339. According to Afghan and
Indonesia’s leader looked to cement his nation’s growing ties with the United States, declaring after a meeting Monday with President Barack Obama that Southeast Asia’s largest economy intended to join a
In the photograph that made Kim Phuc a living symbol of the Vietnam War, her burns aren’t visible — only her agony as she runs wailing toward the camera, her arms flung
Seventeen people were killed in a fire that raced through a packed karaoke bar yesterday on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, and 71 others were hospitalized for smoke inhalation. Witnesses told authorities the fire started
Indonesia’s leader is making his first official U.S. visit since sweeping to power a year ago. It’s a chance to build a rapport with an American president with personal ties to
The president of the Maldives appealed for calm yesterday, one day after his deputy was arrested on suspicion of links to an assassination attempt against him, and said the arrest
South Korea fired warning shots on Saturday at a North Korean patrol boat, as the reunions for families separated by the 1950-1953 Korean War continued, a sign of a thaw
Five other people, including the president’s bodyguard, were also killed. The incident took place at the Korean Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters during a dinner being held by Kim in honour
China will provide Nepal with 1.3 million liters of gasoline to help it cope with severe fuel shortages as a result of restricted supplies from neighboring India, officials said yesterday. The
Villagers in the jungles of Myanmar’s northern Kachin state stand upon staggering wealth: Jade worth tens of billions of dollars. Yet they see almost none of that money, even as
In an anonymous office building in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, in a part of Colorado where cattle ranches fade into strip malls, a gravel-voiced man with a Brooklyn
The founder of a popular Singapore church was found guilty Wednesday of misappropriating more than USD35.5 million in donations to support his wife’s singing career in Asia before helping her break into
Hundreds of mostly elderly Koreans — some in wheelchairs or leaning on walking sticks, most overcome by tears, laughter and shock — began three days of reunions yesterday with loved
A storm finally blew away from the main northern Philippine island yesterday, after leaving at least 20 dead over the weekend and forcing 70,000 villagers into emergency shelters and destroying rice fields
Army, police and civilian volunteers rushed yesterday to rescue hundreds of villagers trapped in their flooded homes and on rooftops in a northern Philippine province battered by slow-moving Typhoon Koppu, officials said. The
Afghanistan’s acting defense minister said yesterday that the Doctors Without Borders hospital in the north of the country that was bombed by U.S. forces was being used by insurgents who
Kim Wu-jong is partially paralyzed, poor and lives alone in a small, run-down home in Seoul. But the 87-year-old feels like the luckiest man in South Korea: This week he
Slow-moving Typhoon Koppu weakened after blowing ashore with fierce winds in the northeastern Philippines yesterday, leaving at least two people dead, displacing 16,000 villagers and knocking out power in entire provinces, officials
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