Philippine army says taking fire from women, children
Philippine troops fighting Islamic State-linked rebels in a southern city have encountered armed resistance from women and children, the military said on Monday, as troops...
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Nearly 90,000 escape Myanmar as humanitarian crisis looms
Nearly 90,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar in August, pressuring scarce resources of aid agencies and communities already helping hundreds of thousands...
North Korean nuclear test prompts global condemnation
North Korea‘s biggest nuclear test to date was condemned around the world on Sunday, with several leaders calling for new sanctions and U.S. President Donald Trump...
Xi, Putin agree to “appropriately deal” with N.Korea nuclear test -Xinhua
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Sunday to “appropriately deal with” the latest nuclear test by North Korea, state news agency...
North Korean nuclear programme a grave concern – U.N. watchdog
The United Nations nuclear watchdog on Sunday called North Korea’s nuclear programme a “grave concern” after the nation, to which the agency’s experts have no...
North Korea says conducts hydrogen bomb test, Trump calls it a “rogue nation” (Update 4)
North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sunday, which it said was an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, marking...
Rohingya Muslims flee as more than 2,600 houses burned in Myanmar’s Rakhine
More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar’s northwest in the last week, the government said on Saturday, in one...
China says Xi transcends West as a diplomatic ‘pioneer’
Chinese President Xi Jinping is a diplomatic pioneer whose ideology has transcended centuries of Western international relations theory, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday,...
Putin warns N. Korea situation on verge of ‘large-scale conflict’
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Friday that the tense standoff between North Korea and the United States was on the verge of large-scale conflict...
Pakistani court declares Musharraf a fugitive in Bhutto case
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Thursday declared ex-military leader Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in the murder case of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and acquitted...
Bodies wash up as boat carrying Rohingya capsizes
Bangladeshi border guards on Thursday recovered the bodies of 20 Rohingya women and children whose boat capsized as they fled violence in Myanmar, an official...
Building collapses in Mumbai; 11 dead, some trapped (Update 2)
Rescue workers in Mumbai searched for more than a dozen people feared trapped in a 117-year-old, six-storey building that collapsed early on Thursday, following two...
Trump says ‘talking not the answer’ on North Korea
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed any diplomatic negotiations with North Korea, saying “talking is not the answer,” one day after Pyongyang fired a...
Thousands more Rohingya flee Myanmar violence flares
Nearly 9,000 Rohingya Muslims, many sick and fearing for their lives, have fled the worst violence to grip northwest Myanmar in at least five years,...
Trump says “all options on the table”
North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan’s northern Hokkaido island into the sea on Tuesday, prompting a warning from US President Donald Trump that...
India and China agree to end border standoff
India and China have agreed to an “expeditious disengagement” of troops in a disputed border area where their soldiers have been locked in a stand-off for...
Indian court sentences self-styled ‘godman’ to 20 years in prison
An Indian judge sentenced a self-styled “godman”, whose followers went on a deadly rampage after he was convicted of rape last week, to 20 years’...
Panic-stricken civilians flee fighting in Myanmar’s north-west
Thousands of fearful Rohingya Muslim and Rakhine Buddhist civilians fled the worst fighting to grip Myanmar’s north-west in five years, with 104 people killed and...
After deadly protests, Indian states in lockdown for “godman’s” rape sentencing
India is deploying thousands of riot police and shutting down internet services in two northern states, as it prepares for the sentencing on Monday of...
Top anti-graft inspector at China’s finance ministry under investigation for graft
The head of the anti-graft committee for China’s Ministry of Finance has been put under investigation himself for suspected graft, the ruling Communist Party’s anti-corruption...
