Asia

Dubai: A group affiliated with Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the killing of a liberal Bangladeshi blogger this week, the SITE monitoring service...

Hong Kong: A court in southern China on Friday jailed four activists who had publicly supported Hong Kong's pro-democracy Occupy Central movement and...

Kabul: Fighting has broken out between Afghan government forces and Taliban militants in an area in the north where battles destroyed power lines early...

Beijing: China is confident it can resolve business disagreements with Myanmar through friendly talks, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said after meeting his...

Manila: A Philippine senator said on Wednesday that Chinese hackers were likely to have pulled off one of the world's biggest cyber heists at the...

Hong Kong: A painting by Chinese artist Zhang Daqian sold for nearly $35 million at an auction in Hong Kong on Tuesday, the most one of his works has ever...

Beijing: China on Tuesday accused one of its former top military officers of taking "huge" bribes for promotions, as President Xi Jinping presses...

Seoul: North Korea can mount a nuclear warhead on a medium-range missile, a South Korean official said on Tuesday in a new assessment of the capability of a...

Charikar(Afghanistan): A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up near a school north of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, killing at least six...

Beijing: China on Tuesday banned imports of gold and rare earths from North Korea as well as exports to the country of jet fuel and other oil products used...