Tokyo: Tokyo's popular governor Yuriko Koike launched a bitter attack on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Tuesday as the gloves came off for the...
Tokyo: Tokyo's popular governor Yuriko Koike launched a bitter attack on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Tuesday as the gloves came off for the...
TAIPEI: Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen vowed to defend her island's freedom and democracy in a speech to mark National Day on Tuesday, her...
Kutupalong, Bangladesh: Hasina Begum's earliest memory is of watching the jungle cut down to expand the camp in Bangladesh that is the only...
Sydney: Seven politicians embroiled in a dual citizenship crisis faced Australia's highest court Tuesday in the first of three days of hearings that...
Taipei: Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen pledged on Monday to bolster the island's military but added it will not "seek war" amid tensions with...
CAIRO: The health conditions of prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s daughter are deteriorating, her family said Monday. Ola al-Qaradawi, 55, and her...
STOCKHOLM: The Nobel prize in economics was awarded Monday to Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago for research showing how people's choices...
Srinagar, India: Indian forces said they shot dead a top leader of the Kashmir militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad in a clash in the disputed...
Ankara: The Turkish foreign ministry summoned the US embassy's deputy chief of mission on Monday, urging Washington to reverse its decision to suspend...
MADRID: The leader of Spain's Socialists, the main opposition to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative People's Party (PP), said on Monday the party...
Kano, Nigeria: Nigeria on Monday prepared for its first major prosecutions of suspects linked to the Boko Haram conflict in closed-door trials at...
Kobane, Syria: US-backed fighters say they are nearing the "final week" of their assault to drive the Islamic State group from their one-time...
NEW DELHI: An Indian court on Monday commuted the death penalty on 11 convicts to life term in the 2002 train burning case...
Kinshasa: Rebels from a Ugandan-dominated group on Monday attacked a UN military base in DR Congo's unstable east, killing one peacekeeper and injuring...
Bangkok: The UN's aviation agency has removed a safety "red flag" against Thai carriers, the kingdom's junta leader said Monday, in a major...
CASABLANCA, Morocco: Thousands of people came out in the streets of northern Casablanca city Sunday in protest against the state’s continued detention of...
LUSAKA: Eleven cases of cholera have been recorded so far in Zambian capital Lusaka, the nation's health minister said Sunday. "The affected compounds...
BOSASO, Somalia: Islamist militants attacked a checkpoint in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region, killing at least five people in the early hours of Monday,...
