GENEVA: The top United Nations human rights body agreed on Friday to send an international fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings,...
GENEVA: The top United Nations human rights body agreed on Friday to send an international fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings,...
MUMBAI: The Indian government is giving industrial projects a chance to clear regulatory hurdles they had previously failed to do, in a move...
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte hit out at the European Union on Friday for hypocrisy and called the bloc “sons of bitches” after...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong authorities have launched a prosecution against the captain of the ship and shipping agent involved in transporting nine Singaporean...
SHANGHAI: China’s air quality was markedly worse in the first two months of the year than the same period of 2016 following a...
Pakistan will punish social media companies that fail to take action against online blasphemy, the interior minister said, adding that he had requested...
JOLO, Philippines: Two Malaysian sailors held captive for eight months by Muslim militants were rescued Thursday in the southern Philippines, military officials said....
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s prime minister is set to throw his support behind Beijing’s initiative to build a modern-day Silk Road across Asia during a...
Jindo, South Korea: Salvage operators were preparing to move South Korea's sunken Sewol ferry on to another vessel to transfer it to port...
ISLAMABAD: Chinese, Saudi and Turkish troops for the first time joined the Pakistan Day parade in the capital Islamabad on Thursday, in a...
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is coming under fire for possible links to a nationalist school whose principal says Abe’s wife donated...
Kandahar, Afghanistan: Taliban fighters captured the strategic southern district of Sangin on Thursday, officials said, another setback for Afghan forces in opium-rich Helmand...
KARACHI, Pakistan: Pakistan has said it is seriously concerned over the detention of senior figures in Jammu and Kashmir's independence movement in a...
Kabul: A policeman killed nine of his co workers in an insider attack in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan, local officials said Thursday....
Seoul: South Korea's sunken Sewol ferry emerged from the waters on Thursday, nearly three years after it sank with the loss of more...
Sydney: A regional Australian airline plane made an emergency landing Thursday after the pilot was forced to shut down an engine, barely a...
SHANGHAI: Chinese coastal sea levels hit record highs in 2016, driven by climate change as well as El Nino and La Nina events,...
