Twelve soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan on Saturday in an ambush by Islamist militants on an army convoy, officials said. The soldiers were moving in vehicles when they came under fire in the mountainous Badar area of South Waziristan near the border with Afghanistan. Pakistan's militar
South Korean workers who returned home on Friday after being detained for a week by US immigration authorities described their horror over the raid at their workplace in the state of Georgia and their relief at being reunited with their families. "It was like a military operation," said one of the
Nepal's President Ramchandra Paudel dissolved parliament and called for fresh elections on Mar 5, his office said late on Friday, following a week of deadly violence that culminated in the appointment of the country's first woman prime minister in the interim. The announcement came just hours afte
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has closed eight centres providing support to Afghan refugees forced back to the country because Taliban authorities are preventing female UN staff from entering them, an official said on Friday. The United Nations says Pakistan is driving Afghan refugees back home ag
Some 300 South Korean workers returned home on Friday to emotional reunions with families, one week after being detained in a major US immigration raid that left some questioning whether they would ever work in the United States again. Wearing face masks, they disembarked a chartered plane at Inch
Nepal's former chief justice, Sushila Karki, is likely to be appointed as interim prime minister, a source aware of the talks told Reuters on Friday, after intense anti-graft protests led to the resignation of KP Sharma Oli. The Himalayan nation's worst upheaval in years, which killed 34 people la
The number of Japan's centenarians rose for the 55th straight year to a record 99,763, an increase of 4,644 from the previous year, government data showed Friday. There are an average of 80.58 centenarians per 100,000 people in the country, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, w
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Thursday he believes the United States will sort out a trade deal with India as soon as that country stops buying Russian oil. Asked on CNBC what trade issue he was most focused on, Lutnick mentioned India and said: "Well, we're going to sort out India,
An Israeli attack that targeted Hamas leaders in Qatar this week would not change the Palestinian group's terms for ending the war in Gaza, an official said on Thursday. Israel attempted to kill the political leaders of Hamas with an airstrike on Doha on Tuesday, in what US officials described as
Nepal's "Gen Z" protesters backed the country's first female chief justice to temporarily lead the troubled nation and called for parliament to be dissolved on Thursday, two days after angry demonstrations killed 34 and forced the prime minister to quit. Sushila Karki, 73, who was the first woman
Apple growers in Indian Kashmir are staring at huge losses this year as floods and highway closures disrupt the peak harvest season, enmeshing growers and truckers in uncertainty, farmers and industry officials say. Losses of between 6 billion rupees and 7 billion rupees ($68 million and $79 milli
At least 15 people have been killed and 10 others remain missing after flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains struck Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province and the tourist island of Bali, authorities said Wednesday. The rains, which began Monday, caused rivers to overflow
Nepal's army will resume talks on Thursday with "Gen Z" protesters to decide a new interim leader for the Himalayan nation, an army spokesperson said, after angry demonstrations that killed 30 and forced the prime minister to resign. Soldiers patrolled the quiet streets of Kathmandu, the capital,
