India to spray capital with water amid deepening smog emergency
India plans to spray water over its capital, New Delhi, to try to combat toxic smog that has triggered a pollution emergency, officials said on...
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Bomb kills three, including senior police official in restive Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed a senior Pakistani police official on his way to work and two others on Thursday in the restive southwestern province of...
Trump presses China on North Korea and trade
By Steve Holland and Christian Shepherd U.S. President Donald Trump pressed China to do more on the North Korean nuclear issue on Thursday and said...
Trump warns ‘rogue regime’ N.Korea of grave danger
US President Donald Trump arrived in China on Wednesday seeking help to rein in North Korea after warning the North’s leader that the nuclear weapons he is...
India to step up pollution battle in ‘gas chamber’ Delhi
India’s federal government on Wednesday urged Delhi and the surrounding northern states to immediately tackle dangerous levels of pollution in the national capital that forced...
Trump says solution must be found to nuclear standoff
President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned North Korea he was prepared to use the full range of U.S. military power to stop any attack, but...
Islamic State claims attack on TV station in Afghan capital
Gunmen disguised as police killed a security guard and opened fire on staff at a private television station in the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday...
Trump says Japan would shoot N.Korean missiles ‘out of sky’
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Japan would shoot North Korean missiles “out of the sky” if it bought the US weaponry needed...
Flash floods kill 5 in Malaysia, army deploys to rescue thousands of displaced
Flash floods caused by hours of torrential rain killed at least five people in Malaysia and military forces deployed on Sunday to help rescue thousands...
BBC name change stirs language row in Afghanistan
The BBC is facing an angry reaction in Afghanistan after it changed the name of one of its local language Facebook pages to BBC Dari,...
Floods swamp Vietnam as typhoon death toll reaches 27
Floods inundated swathes of central and southern Vietnam on Sunday in the wake of a typhoon that left at least 27 dead just days before...
Trump lands in Japan, says U.S. and allies prepared to defend freedom
U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his tough rhetoric against North Korea when he arrived in Japan on Sunday, saying that the United States and...
China hopes U.S. can “help, not cause problems” in S.China Sea
China hopes the United States can “help and not cause problems” in the disputed South China Sea, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Friday ahead...
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi urges people not to quarrel on Rakhine visit
Myanmar‘s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on Thursday urged people “not to quarrel” as she visited Rakhine State for the first time since...
US pursues direct N. Korea diplomacy despite Trump rejection
The United States is quietly pursuing direct diplomacy with North Korea, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday, despite US President Donald Trump’s public assertion that...
Seven Rohingya drown as boat capsizes off Bangladesh (Update)
Four Rohingya Muslims, a man, woman and two children, drowned when a small wooden fishing boat carrying dozens of refugees fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar capsized off...
Tunnel collapse ‘may have killed 200 after N. Korea test’
A tunnel at North Korea‘s nuclear test site collapsed after Pyongyang’s sixth atomic test in September, possibly killing more than 200 people, Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi...
China, S. Korea agree to mend ties after Thaad standoff
Seoul and Beijing on Tuesday agreed to move beyond a year-long stand-off over the deployment of a US anti-missile system in South Korea, a dispute...
Nato chief urges full implementation of N. Korean sanctions
Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg urged all United Nation members on Tuesday to fully and transparently implement sanctions against North Korea, which he said has emerged...
Police arrest Japanese man after body parts found in apartment
A Japanese man was arrested on Tuesday after parts of a dismembered body were found in a picnic cooler in his apartment, police said, although...
