Asia

Bangkok: Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra appeared in court on Friday to face corruption charges that her supporters say are a ploy by the...

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping will make an unusual visit next week to Saudi Arabia and Iran as Beijing seeks a greater regional diplomatic...

Jakarta: Indonesian police killed one suspected militant and arrested two more in raids across the country on Friday, a day after an attack by IS suicide...

Jakarta: Militants launched a gun and bomb assault in the centre of the Indonesian capital on Thursday, killing at least six people, in an attack that...

Beijing: Feminists in China are embracing Taiwan's presidential front-runner Tsai Ing-wen as a role model in a country where the last woman leader was...

Yangon: Aung San Suu Kyi's last-minute decision to join Myanmar peace talks she had previously criticised took some attendees by surprise, and could...

Seoul: South Korea warned North Korea on Wednesday that the United States and its allies were working on sanctions to inflict "bone-numbing pain"...

Manila: The Philippines has offered the United States eight bases where it can build facilities to store equipment and supplies under a new security deal, a...

Jalalabad(Afghanistan): IS claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on the Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday that was...

Manila: The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday declared a security deal with the United States constitutional, as anti-American protesters rallied outside,...