Trains canceled across country as rail union goes on strike

Trains were canceled across Bangladesh yesterday as railway staff went on strike for higher pensions and other benefits, affecting tens of thousands of passengers and freight

Prosecutors indict impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law, reports say

South Korean prosecutors yesterday indicted impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion in connection with his short-lived imposition of martial law, news reports said, a

Lunar New Year giveaway leaves four dead in Phnom Penh as crowd surges

Four people died and five others were injured yesterday as a crowd scrambled for a handout of food and cash from one of Cambodia ‘s richest people

Rubio kicks off Trump foreign policy engagements in meetings with ‘Quad’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met yesterday with his counterparts from Australia, India and Japan as the Trump administration kicked off its formal foreign policy engagements

Search resumes after deadly flooding and landslides

Indonesian rescuers retrieved two more bodies after they resumed their search yesterday for people missing after floods and landslides on Indonesia’s main island of Java, bringing

Thailand gears up for a celebration as marriage equality law takes effect

They have been in a committed relationship for more than 13 years, and even had a wedding in 2019. Since then, Danaya Phonphayung and Sunma Piamboon,

Court sentences a police volunteer to life in prison in the rape, killing of trainee doctor

An Indian court yesterday sentenced a police volunteer to life in prison after finding him guilty in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor last year,

South Korea’s impeached president is arrested over martial law declaration and his supporters riot

Hours after South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was formally arrested, triggering rioting by his supporters, his lawyers said yesterday that he remains defiant in his refusal to answer

Russia says it will help Vietnam become a ‘partner country’ in the BRICS bloc of developing nations

Russia will facilitate Vietnam’s participation in the BRICS bloc of developing economies as a “partner country,” the countries said in a joint statement on Wednesday after Russian

India docks two satellites in space, a milestone for its scientific ambitions

India docked two satellites in space yesterday to become the fourth nation in the world to achieve the mission, officials said, in an ambitious milestone in its

YouTube election fraud conspiracy theories fuel impeached president and his supporters

Thousands have braved the frigid January weather in Seoul protests, waving South Korean and American flags and shouting vows to protect their embattled conservative hero, the

Indian Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan is stabbed by an intruder at his home in Mumbai 

Indian Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan was stabbed in a scuffle with an intruder at his home yesterday and underwent surgery at a hospital, media reports said.

Impeached President Yoon detained in massive law-enforcement effort

South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was detained in a massive law enforcement operation at the presidential compound yesterday, defiantly insisting the anti-corruption agency didn’t have

China is pushing the Philippines ‘to the wall’ with aggression in the South China Sea, Manila says

A Philippine security official said yesterday that China is “pushing us to the wall” with growing aggression in the disputed South China Sea and warned that “all options

North Korea launches missiles toward eastern waters in second launch of year, South says

North Korea yesterday test-fired multiple missiles toward its eastern waters, South Korea’s military said, as it continued its weapons demonstrations ahead of Donald Trump’s return to

Modi marks the opening of a strategic tunnel in disputed Kashmir

India’s prime minister marked yesterday the opening of a tunnel in the northeast of disputed Kashmir that will grant all-year accessibility to a town that is isolated

Spy agency says N. Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine haven’t shown desire to defect

South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers yesterday that two North Korean soldiers who were captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk

North Korean troops in Ukraine gain battlefield experience, cementing alliance with Russia

For weeks, Ukrainian troops braced for an unfamiliar enemy: North Korean soldiers sent to bolster Moscow’s forces after Ukraine launched a lightning-fast incursion and seized territory in

Black boxes from South Korea plane crash failed to record final four minutes, officials say

The black boxes of a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, South Korean officials said Saturday, possibly

Catholics pray for good health and peace in huge procession venerating Jesus statue

Hundreds of thousands of mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers marched yesterday in an annual procession in the Philippines that venerates a centuries-old black statue of Jesus. Some said

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