Asia
IS Claims Bangladesh Bombing, Police Kill Militant
The Islamic State Group claimed responsibility Saturday for a suicide bomb attack on a Bangladesh security forces camp,...
Death Carts Carry Family Ripped Apart By Mosul Campaign
As a convoy of wooden carts descends a hill outside Iraq's war-torn second city of Mosul, a child's foot, greyed with...
Iraq Forces Near Mosul Mosque Where IS Declared ‘caliphate’
Elite Iraqi forces battled house by house in the Old City of Mosul on Saturday, inching towards the mosque where the...
Tillerson To Face Chinese Ire Over Blame For North Korea Tensions
U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in China on Saturday for what is likely to be a prickly visit, with...
US Denies Report Tillerson Cut Short Meetings Over ‘fatigue’
The United States on Saturday denied a report saying Secretary of State Rex Tillerson opted not to have dinner with his...
Bangladesh Police Kill Militant
Bangladesh police shot dead a suspected militant in the capital Dhaka on Saturday a day after a suicide bomber blew...
From Slick City To Hip Hong Kong
Soulless supermalls housing luxury labels, traditional suit tailors, and markets full of cheap designer knock-offs,...
Tillerson Brings Tougher N.Korea Line To A Wary China
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will press the tougher new US line on North Korea during talks in China on Saturday...
China, Russia Block UN Statement On Myanmar
China and Russia blocked a proposed UN Security Council statement on Friday that would have expressed concern over the...
Exporters To Enjoy Free Trading In Africa By End of 2017
The Minister for Trade and Industry Alan Kyerematen has disclosed that exporters in Ghana would by the end of this year...
Thai Ex-PM Yingluck Lambasts $450m Bill Aimed At Her Brother
Deposed premier Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday accused Thailand's junta of "hounding" her family after it pressed for a...
Warhol Mao Portrait Goes Under the Hammer In Hong Kong
An Andy Warhol portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong will be auctioned in Hong Kong in a landmark sale that...
Saudi King Cancels Maldives Visit Over Swine Flu Fears
The Saudi king has cancelled a scheduled visit to the politically-troubled atoll nation of the Maldives because of an...
US ‘strategic Patience’ With North Korea Has Ended
The United States' "strategic patience" with nuclear-armed North Korea is over, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said...
That Third Force Party
There is an expiry date for everything on the face of the earth. Indeed, this whole earth is transient and will, one...
Palestinian Police Wage War On Stolen Israeli Car Traffic
At the police officer's gesture, the bulldozer smashes its shovel into a blue Hyundai -- the latest of thousands of...
Hong Kong Protesters Jailed For 3 Years For Anti-China Clashes
Three young Hong Kong protesters were jailed for three years Friday on "riot" charges for their part in anti-China...
World Bank Indirectly Backs Harmful SE Asian Projects
World Bank investments in commercial financial institutions are indirectly allowing land-grabs, evictions and pollution...
K-Pop Band Praise Plastic Surgery Beauty
Rounder eyes, narrower faces, bigger breasts: a South Korean girlband is celebrating the country's obsession with...