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Indonesia has “given more than it should” to help hundreds of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants stranded on boats by human traffickers, its foreign minister said yesterday, a day before she
For hundreds of migrants stranded at sea in sinking boats, the first helping hand came not from governments but from fishermen who towed them to safety. The desperation of migrants
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday accused North Korea of a litany of crimes and atrocities while reassuring South Korea of America’s “ironclad” security commitments. Kerry blamed North Korea for
Aruna Shanbaug, 67, suffered severe brain damage when she was sodomized and strangled with a metal chain by a hospital worker in 1973. The man, a ward attendant, left her
Malaysia launched a series of high-level talks with its neighbors yesterday, seeking a solution to a deepening crisis in which boatloads of refugees are stranded off Southeast Asia’s shores, with
The bodies of six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers who were aboard a U.S. Marine helicopter that crashed during a relief mission in earthquake-hit Nepal have been recovered, Nepal’s army said. The wreckage of the
The Taliban attack on a Kabul guesthouse left 14 people dead, including nine foreigners, in the most audacious assault by the insurgents in the Afghan capital since the start of
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis abandoned at sea by human traffickers had nowhere to go yesterday, as Malaysia turned away two boats crammed with migrants, and Thailand kept at bay a
Nepal has been overwhelmed by its second massive earthquake in less than three weeks, its prime minister said yesterday as he visited this normally placid foothills town, now a center for
Police will open a criminal investigation into a Philippine factory fire that killed at least 72 people, as a relative of several of the victims said yesterday the blaze had trapped workers
Officials with bullhorns walked through the quake-damaged streets of this small Nepal town yesterday, calling for people to leave buildings in danger of falling after a second major earthquake in
A fire gutted a rubber slipper factory in a suburb of the Philippine capital yesterday, possibly killing dozens of workers who ran to the second floor in hopes of escaping
A South Korean reserve soldier went on a shooting spree during a mandatory training session in Seoul yesterday, killing a fellow reservist and injuring three others before killing himself, officials
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his defense chief executed with an anti-aircraft gun for complaining about the young ruler, talking back to him and sleeping during a meeting
Gunmen killed at least 45 people yesterday aboard a bus in southern Pakistan bound for a Shiite community center, in the latest attack targeting the religious minority. The attack in the port
A boat crammed with more than 500 refugees, likely Rohingya and Bangladeshis, was found yesterday off the coast of Penang island in northern Malaysia, a person involved in the situation
Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee was yesterday found guilty of insulting Christians in a video monologue, and of distributing an obscene image of the country’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew with
Masked men wielding machetes stabbed a blogger and author to death yesterday near his home in northeastern Bangladesh, police said, the third fatal attack this year against a blogger in the
A major earthquake hit a remote mountain region of Nepal yesterday, killing at least 42 people, triggering landslides and toppling buildings less than three weeks after the Himalayan nation was ravaged by
Marine northern commander Tan Kok Kwee said yesterday that waters around Langkawi island where several wooden vessels have landed in the past three days will be patrolled 24 hours a
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