Tag: Asia

Iranian media have hailed trailblazing Iran-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani following her death from cancer, with her image blazoned across newspaper ...

Israeli authorities were to reopen an ultra-sensitive holy site Sunday closed after an attack that killed two policemen, but new ...

Two Iranian civilians were killed in a cross-border attack by Pakistani insurgents, the Revolutionary Guards said. "On Saturday evening, a ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be in Paris Sunday to mark the 75th anniversary of a notorious roundup of ...

Hundreds of Singaporeans staged a rare protest Saturday calling for an independent inquiry into a bitter family feud between Prime ...

Three people, including two teenage boys, were killed by an explosion in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state on Saturday, a police ...

A team of Afghan girls who were earlier denied visas to attend a Washington robotics competition landed in the United ...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in Doha on Saturday that Paris wants to assist Kuwait-led mediation on the ...

The manicured emerald pitch at Lord's in London, where Afghanistan played for the first time ever Tuesday, is a world ...

US forces killed the leader of the Islamic State group's Afghanistan branch in a raid earlier this week in the ...

Activists accused Beijing of crippling Hong Kong's parliament Friday after four pro-democracy lawmakers were disqualified. More than 1,000 people protested ...

Sri Lanka has failed to deliver on its international commitments to prosecute government troops and Tamil rebels for atrocities committed ...

Turkey and Qatar on Friday insisted Ankara would keep a new military base in the emirate, rejecting demands from other ...

More than a million people were displaced from Mosul by the battle in the Iraqi city against the Islamic State ...

Four pro-democracy lawmakers were disqualified from Hong Kong's parliament Friday in a move that will worsen growing fears the city's ...

A Ranking Member on the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament, Okudzeto Ablakwa has justified government’s decision to set up a ...

Google has revealed it has built a London data centre for the cloud computing services it rents to third parties. ...

Singapore on Friday executed a Malaysian drug trafficker despite a plea for clemency from the United Nations and concerns expressed ...

A Thai anti-corruption official on Friday said he is suing King Power, the duty free giant that owns Leicester City ...

A business-as-usual approach to climate change will be "disastrous" for Asia, undoing much of the phenomenal economic growth that has ...