Asia

Almaty: Tajikistan's President Imomali Rakhmon will be able to run for an unlimited number of terms after a series of constitutional amendments were...

Kathmandu/Sydney: A 43-year-old Indian mountaineer has died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest, in the third fatality on the world's...

Manila: Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte's vow to root out crime and drug abuse will get a boost from the country's first-time acting win...

Bangkok: Two years to the day that Thailand's army toppled the remnants of her government, former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra called on the junta...

Kabul/Washington: The United States has killed the leader of the Afghan Taliban in an air strike in a remote border area just inside Pakistan, Afghanistan...

Jakarta: Seven people have died and two are in critical condition after Mount Sinabung on Sumatra island erupted on Saturday, said an Indonesian disaster...

Almaty: President Imomali Rakhmon seems set to strengthen his power by referendum on Sunday as Tajikistan, on the front line against militancy and crime...

Naypyitaw: Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi asked to be given "enough space" to address the plight of her country's Rohingya Muslim population,...

Colombo: Rescuers pulled out more bodies from the muddy debris of disastrous landslide taking the toll to over 80 while 118 people remained missing on...

Dhaka: At least 20 people were killed and over 100 others injured as cyclone Roanu battered Bangladesh's southern coast on Saturday, leaving a trail of...