Asia
Jihadist Tunnels Save Assyrian Winged Bulls of Mosul
Crawl through a labyrinth of narrow tunnels in near total darkness and suddenly they appear: two great winged bulls...
UPS Wins Court Challenge Against EU Block To TNT Bid
An EU court agreed with United Parcel Service (UPS. N) on Tuesday that the EU had wrongly blocked its takeover of Dutch...
China Calls For Ceasefire As Thousands Flee Myanmar Border Town
Thousands were fleeing a Myanmar town bordering China on Tuesday after at least 30 people were killed in fighting...
Asia Demands More World Cup Places
Asia wants a significant increase in its allocation of places in the 48-nation 2026 World Cup, the head of the Asian...
Iraqi Forces Retake Mosul Museum Vandalised By IS
Iraqi security forces recaptured the Mosul museum, where Islamic State group militants infamously filmed themselves...
N. Korea’s Art of Brinkmanship
Pyongyang's travel ban on Malaysians leaving North Korea sharply escalated the already-high tensions with Kuala Lumpur...
Turkey, Russia, US Military Chiefs Hold Talks In Turkey
Turkish, Russian and US military chiefs held talks on Tuesday in the southern Turkish city of Antalya to discuss...
Australia Plays Downs Chance of Sea Patrols With Indonesia
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Tuesday played down the possibility that Australia and Indonesia would stage joint...
900m In Asia Had To Pay Bribes In Last Year
More than a quarter of people living in Asia had to pay a bribe while trying to access a public service in the past...
SIGOS Partners Vodafone, NCA To Fight SIMBOX Fraud
The partner of Interconnect Clearinghouse operator, Afriwave Telecoms Ghana in fighting SIMBOX fraud, SIGOS, also...
Trump’s Slurs — and Praise — of Obama Go Back Years
US President Donald Trump's love-hate attitude towards predecessor Barack Obama goes back a decade, a volatile mixture...
EU To Host Syria Conference April 5 With UN
The European Union will host a conference on the post-conflict future of Syria with the United Nations in Brussels on...
Bahrain Seeks Dissolution of Secular Opposition Party
Bahrain's justice ministry said Monday it filed a lawsuit to dissolve a secular opposition party, the state-run news...
Trade Deficit Threat To National Security
The Trump administration's top trade advisor said Monday US trade deficits are a threat to national security that could...
Life In A Basement On Mosul’s Front Line
Abu Mariam's spacious villa sits in an upscale Mosul district, but when Iraq's second city became a war zone, the...
Indonesia Faces ‘huge’ Challenges To Host Asian Games
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) warned Monday that Indonesia faces "huge" challenges to prepare for the 2018 Asian...
Japan 50-Yr-Old Striker Miura Surpasses Stanley Matthews Landmark
Twinkle-toed Japanese footballer Kazuyoshi Miura has racked up another astonishing landmark by eclipsing former England...
Ghana’s 60 Years of Nationhood
A year in history today was when Dr Kwame Nkrumah and his henchmen stood on that podium at the now Black Star or...
Myanmar Army Accuses Rebels of Deadly Kokang Attack
At least six police officers were killed Monday in a surprise pre-dawn raid by ethnic minority rebels on a town in a...