Tag: Asia

Thousands of Ethiopians are still stuck in Saudi Arabia after a 90-day amnesty for undocumented migrants expired on Tuesday without ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday created five new cardinals in a Vatican ceremony that, while deeply traditional in form, also reflected ...

US President Donald Trump's warning to the Syrian government not to carry out a chemical weapons attack appears to have ...

Myanmar's civilian government on Wednesday defended the detention of three journalists who were reporting on an armed ethnic group, an ...

Dutch electronics giant Philips Wednesday announced it was buying for 1.9 billion euros ($2.2 billion) a specialist US company manufacturing ...

Qatar on Wednesday condemned Saudi Arabia's refusal to negotiate the demands of the kingdom and its allies for ending a ...

When Naomi Wu was a teenager, she and her friends would ride the train from mainland China to Hong Kong ...

Nepal's troubled south began voting Wednesday in the first local elections for two decades, a key stage in the country's ...

In three years, Lebanese grocer Ali Khiami hired six staff, invested in property and funded his children's university education. Business ...

Three top Gulf diplomats were in Washington Tuesday as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to help resolve the ...

Saudi Arabia reiterated Tuesday that its demands on Qatar were not negotiable, as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held ...

A US judge has halted deportations of all Iraqi nationals -- some slated for removal as early as Tuesday -- ...

US President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron agreed during a telephone call Tuesday on the need for ...

Canada's supposed non-combat role in Iraq is being questioned after a special forces sniper took out an IS fighter in ...

The US warning that Syria may be preparing another chemical weapons attack was based on suspect activity at the launch ...

President Bashar al-Assad toured a Russian airbase in western Syria on Tuesday in his first official visit to Moscow's main ...

Syria's former defence minister Mustafa Tlass, a close friend of President Bashar al-Assad's father and predecessor Hafez, died in Paris ...

US President Donald Trump and his policies are broadly unpopular around the world – with the notable exceptions of Russia ...

The United States narrowly missed out Tuesday on its first gold at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships when Paige McPherson ...

Pakistan Tuesday strongly criticised the US decision to impose sanctions on Syed Salahuddin, senior leader of the Kashmiri militant group ...