Asia

Kabul : At least 10 people were killed and 23 wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew up his car near the house of a pro-government militia commander...

Dhaka: Bangladesh hanged Jamaat-e-Islami party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami on Wednesday for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence, the...

Manila: The Philippines started the process to strengthen its anti-money laundering and bank secrecy laws on Tuesday, aiming to plug loopholes that allowed...

Lashkar Gah (Afghanistan): Taliban insurgents killed at least 15 Afghan policemen when they overran two checkpoints in Helmand province in an attack on...

Kathmandu: Climbers on Mount Everest are on the brink of the first attempts in three years to make the final ascent to the world's tallest peak, after...

Yangon: The new ambassador of the United States to Myanmar said on Tuesday he will keep using the term Rohingya for the Muslim minority, even after the...

Pyongyang: Thousands of ecstatic North Koreans joined a mass rally and parade on Tuesday as leader Kim Jong Un capped off the consolidation of his power at...

Beijing/Hong Kong: China scrambled fighter jets on Tuesday as a US navy ship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, a patrol China...

Manila: The Philippines' president-elect, rough-talking city mayor Rodrigo Duterte, announced plans on Tuesday for an overhaul of the country's...

Pyongyang: North Korea said it would strengthen its defensive nuclear weapons capability, the official KCNA news agency reported on Monday, a decision...