Tag: Asia

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney on Thursday urged Iraq to agree to a UN investigation of atrocities committed by the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Agyenim Boateng Agyei as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement ...

Iran has successfully test-fired a naval missile which hit its target 250 kilometres away, local news agencies reported Thursday. "We ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Agyenim Boateng Adjei as the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority in accordance ...

Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre says he will perform in Israel next month in a concert to publicise the plight ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Agyenim Boateng Adjei as the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority in accordance ...

Washington is scrambling to develop a new strategy to counter North Korea's aggressive nuclear weapon and missile programs, but tougher ...

The UN's World Food Programme said two of its Malaysian staff left North Korea Thursday after Kuala Lumpur and Pyongyang ...

Chinese survey ships have been entering waters recognised by the United Nations as Philippine territory, Manila's defence secretary said Thursday, ...

Two competing roosters rear up to face each other in the heart of a rowdy Madagascan arena before bursting forward ...

Qatar's metro, once completed, will run hundreds of kilometres across ultra-modern Doha, along the coast and into its expanding suburbs. ...

The Islamic State group has lost most of the land it once held in Iraq and Syria but hopes to ...

Lebanese authorities carried out raids Wednesday against currency exchange offices and money transfer companies on suspicion they sent huge sums ...

The Maldives government on Wednesday denied it was selling a cluster of small islands to Saudi Arabia, following opposition protests ...

A senior official in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday accused the United States of provoking tensions after two separate ...

Thousands of Rohingya who took refuge in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in Myanmar have returned home because of a Bangladeshi ...

Organisers of Indonesia's 2018 Asian Games insisted Wednesday preparations were on track after the build-up was hit by corruption allegations ...

For two weeks, Yunis Mohammed and 17 relatives huddled terrified in the cellar of his west Mosul home as the ...

The BBC World Service has stopped broadcasting from one of its major global transmission stations situated in Thailand, AFP has ...

Kuwait is building one of the world's longest causeways to its remote north where it will pump billions into "Silk ...