Southeast Asian foreign ministers vowed to finalize negotiations with China over a proposed pact aimed at preventing conflicts in the disputed South China Sea in their
Indian police have arrested more than 2,000 men in a crackdown on illegal child marriages involving girls under the age of 18 in a northeastern state, officials
Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, has
The United States and the Philippines announced an agreement yesterday to expand America’s military presence in the Southeast Asian country, with U.S. forces granted access to four
Afghanistan's Taliban-appointed foreign minister yesterday asked Pakistani authorities to look for the reasons behind militant violence in their country instead of blaming Afghanistan. The
The prospects for peace in Myanmar, much less a return to democracy, seem dimmer than ever two years after the army seized power from the elected government
China yesterday accused Czech President-elect Petr Pavel of challenging its hard line on national sovereignty by affirming ties with self-ruled Taiwan in a phone call with the
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, in Japan as part of his East Asia tour, said “our security is closely interconnected” and called for stronger ties with Japan as
The death toll from a suicide bombing at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan rose to 88 yesterday, officials said. The assault, on a Sunni mosque inside a
Russia's embassy in North Korea says the country has eased stringent epidemic controls in capital Pyongyang that were placed during the past five days to slow the
A A state of emergency was declared on Friday when a volume of rain that would typically fall over an entire Southern Hemisphere summer hit in
A suicide bomber struck yesterday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 20 people and wounding as many as 96 worshippers, officials said. No
Authorities said over the weekend that three people had died and at least one was missing after record levels of rainfall pounded New Zealand’s largest city, causing
Authorities in Western Australia were searching for a tiny but potentially deadly radioactive capsule that got lost while being transported on a truck from a mine to
The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military’s seizure of power, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past year as eradication
Thailand ushered in a new age of train travel yesterday Southeast Asia’s biggest railway station officially began operations. The government says the huge, modern development on
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden, who became a global icon of the left and exemplified a new style of leadership, said yesterday that she would leave
Australia's foreign minister said yesterday her government was “deeply troubled” by the delays in China resolving espionage allegations against Chinese-Australian Yang Hengjun, while a supporter said the
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said yesterday that his nation’s efforts to be carbon neutral by 2050 would rely in part on returning to
Nepalese authorities yesterday began returning to families the bodies of victims of a flight that crashed Sunday, and said they were sending the aircraft’s data recorder
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