Asia
Israel To Reopen Sensitive Jerusalem Holy Site After Attack
Israeli authorities were to reopen an ultra-sensitive holy site Sunday closed after an attack that killed two...
Border Attack From Pakistan Kills 2 Iranians
Two Iranian civilians were killed in a cross-border attack by Pakistani insurgents, the Revolutionary Guards said. "On...
Row Over Netanyahu Invite To Paris Vel d’Hiv Ceremony
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be in Paris Sunday to mark the 75th anniversary of a notorious roundup...
Singapore Protest Demands Inquiry Into PM Family Feud
Hundreds of Singaporeans staged a rare protest Saturday calling for an independent inquiry into a bitter family feud...
Three Killed In Rakhine Explosion
Three people, including two teenage boys, were killed by an explosion in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state on Saturday, a...
Afghan Girls Robotics Team Land In US After Visa U-Turn
A team of Afghan girls who were earlier denied visas to attend a Washington robotics competition landed in the United...
France Aims To Be ‘facilitator’ In Gulf Crisis Talks
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in Doha on Saturday that Paris wants to assist Kuwait-led mediation on...
Dizzying Rise of Afghan Cricket
The manicured emerald pitch at Lord's in London, where Afghanistan played for the first time ever Tuesday, is a world...
Leader of Afghan IS Branch Killed In US Raid
US forces killed the leader of the Islamic State group's Afghanistan branch in a raid earlier this week in the...
Protests After Hong Kong Lawmakers Disqualified From Parliament
Activists accused Beijing of crippling Hong Kong's parliament Friday after four pro-democracy lawmakers were...
Sri Lanka Fails To Investigate War Crimes
Sri Lanka has failed to deliver on its international commitments to prosecute government troops and Tamil rebels for...
Ankara, Doha Insist Turkish Base Will Stay In Qatar
Turkey and Qatar on Friday insisted Ankara would keep a new military base in the emirate, rejecting demands from other...
More Than 800,000 People Still Displaced From Mosul
More than a million people were displaced from Mosul by the battle in the Iraqi city against the Islamic State group,...
Anti-Beijing Hong Kong Lawmakers Disqualified From Parliament
Four pro-democracy lawmakers were disqualified from Hong Kong's parliament Friday in a move that will worsen growing...
Kuwait Mission Will Rescue Distressed Ghanaian Citizens – Ablakwa
A Ranking Member on the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament, Okudzeto Ablakwa has justified government’s decision...
Google Announces London Cloud Computing Data Centre
Google has revealed it has built a London data centre for the cloud computing services it rents to third parties. The...
Singapore Hangs Malaysian Drug Trafficker
Singapore on Friday executed a Malaysian drug trafficker despite a plea for clemency from the United Nations and...
Leicester City’s Thai Owners To Be Sued By Graft-Buster
A Thai anti-corruption official on Friday said he is suing King Power, the duty free giant that owns Leicester City...
ADB Warns Climate Change ‘disastrous’ For Asia
A business-as-usual approach to climate change will be "disastrous" for Asia, undoing much of the phenomenal economic...