Asia

Yangon: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights that the government will avoid using the term...

Kabul: More than 20 people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan on Monday, including at least 14 when a suicide bomber struck a minibus...

Cairo: Egyptian aviation investigators will finish on Monday repairing memory units from the black box recorders of an EgyptAir flight that crashed into the...

Naha(Japan): Tens of thousands of people gathered in sweltering heat on Japan's Okinawa island on Sunday in one of the biggest demonstrations in two...

Jakarta: Flash floods and landslides killed 24 people in Indonesia's Central Java province, officials said on Sunday, forcing residents to evacuate to...

(Zhezkazgan) Kazakhstan: A Soyuz capsule carrying a Russian, an American and a Briton from the International Space Station made a safe parachute landing on...

MANILA: A senior Philippine army general on Wednesday resumed a push for martial law to be imposed on a troubled southern island where extremist militants...

Beijing: The wife of former Chinese domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang has been jailed for nine years for corruption, a court said on Wednesday, the...

Beijing: China's leader told Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday he did not want trade tensions with the European Union, a vital market for a huge...

Shanghai: A man set off a home-made explosive at a terminal in Shanghai's Pudong International Airport on Sunday, the city's government said,...