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The Taliban launched a complex attack on the Afghan parliament yesterday, with a suicide car bomber striking at the entrance and gunmen battling police as lawmakers were meeting inside to
An Indonesian court yesterday denied the final appeal of a French national who faces execution for drug offenses, setting the stage for diplomatic retaliation by France after executions of other
Nearly 150 people have died from heatstroke in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi in the last two days, officials said yesterday. Hospital reports confirm at least 148 deaths,
Millions of yoga enthusiasts across the world bent and twisted their bodies in complex postures yesterday to mark International Yoga Day. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spread his mat among rows
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi told her party’s senior members Saturday that this year’s general election could be delayed if there is any instability in the country. The former
South Korea reported one more fatality from Middle East respiratory syndrome, raising the death toll to 25 as of yesterday, amid signs the viral outbreak may be easing. The Ministry of
The head of the World Health Organization yesterday praised beleaguered South Korean officials and exhausted health workers, saying their efforts to contain a deadly MERS virus outbreak have put the
South Korea’s ruling party-controlled legislature yesterday approved President Park Geun-hye’s choice for prime minister, ending a lengthy merry-go-round at the country’s No. 2 job caused by political wrangling and corruption scandals. The National
Two migrants said they witnessed an Australian official hand cash to the crew of a people-smuggling boat to take its passengers back to Indonesia. The allegation of payments to people-smugglers has
The World Health Organization says the spread of a mysterious virus from the Middle East to South Korea doesn’t merit being declared a global emergency despite infecting more than 160 people in
North Korea says it has been hit by its worst drought in a century, resulting in extensive damage to agriculture. The official Korean Central News Agency said the drought has caused
Prime Minister Tony Abbott sought to brush off Indonesian concerns that Australia paid people smugglers to turn around boats carrying asylum seekers, saying his government is taking a moral approach
The death toll continued to mount in South Korea’s MERS outbreak yesterday even as schools reopen and people recover from the virus. Nineteen people have died in the largest outbreak of the disease
Nestle India said it will destroy instant noodles worth 3.2 billion rupees (USD50 million) following a sales ban imposed by Indian food safety authorities for unsafe levels of lead. India’s food safety panel banned
The largest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines handed over dozens of assault weapons yesterday in a symbolic gesture to reinforce a peace pact stalled by a public outcry over
Authorities in western Indonesia yesterday evacuated hundreds of villagers living near a volcano that is spewing hot ash down its slopes almost daily. Government volcanologist Gede Suantika said at least 28
A Malaysian oil tanker that went missing last week carrying fuel worth 21 million ringgit (USD5.6 million) and 22 crew members is believed to have been hijacked by pirates, marine
The South Korean death toll from Middle East respiratory syndrome has risen to 16 the Financial Times reported yesterday, as local authorities struggle to contain the disease nearly four weeks
Seoul said yesterday that a teenage North Korean soldier defected to the South by crossing the heavily guarded border between the two Koreas. An official at South Korea’s defense ministry
Nepal yesterday reopened most of the cultural heritage sites that were damaged in a pair of devastating earthquakes, hoping to lure back foreign tourists. The April 25 and May 12 quakes killed
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