-- 2018-11-03 14:30:07
Two people were killed and about 300 others were forced to take shelter at higher grounds as floods and landslides struck West Sumatra province of western Indonesia, a disaster agency official said on...
-- 2018-11-03 12:49:09
A tigress in India who is said to have killed 13 people has been shot dead after a major hunt, officials say. The six-year-old tigress had evaded capture in the jungles of the western state of Mahara...
-- 2018-11-02 21:28:58
Editor-turned-politician MJ Akbar, who had to resign as union minister over sex harassment allegations against him, has now been accused of rape by a US-based journalist who worked with him over two d...
-- 2018-11-02 19:36:07
The Asia-Pacific region, with the world's highest rate of urbanisation, is also the home to more than half the world's 821 million undernourished people, said United Nations officials on Friday. Hund...
-- 2018-11-02 17:43:15
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told the US he considered murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi to be a dangerous Islamist, media reports say. Prince Mohammed's reported phone call to the White...
-- 2018-11-02 17:25:39
Security footage from a bus which crashed into a river in China has revealed that the driver was fighting with a passenger moments earlier. The bus plunged 50m (164ft) off a bridge into the Yangtze R...
-- 2018-11-02 17:18:06
An Australian man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for encouraging his wife's suicide, in a case believed to have set a global precedent. Graham Morant, 68, was convicted last month of co...
-- 2018-11-02 13:44:34
At least five people were killed by suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) terrorists at Kherbari near the Dhola-Sadiya bridge in Upper Assam's Tinsukia district of India on Thursday evenin...
-- 2018-11-02 10:30:07
Jordan’s education and tourism ministers have resigned after an investigation into the deaths of 21 people, mainly school children who were swept away in flash floods on a school outing in the D...
-- 2018-11-01 21:46:51
Sri Lanka's president has lifted the suspension of parliament and scheduled a meeting of the legislature on November 5, according to his newly-appointed prime minister, in a highly anticipated move ob...
-- 2018-11-01 18:07:54
The man at the centre of Sri Lanka's political crisis said that he has the support of parliament and will not leave the grand mansion reserved for the island nation's prime minister. Last week the pr...
-- 2018-11-01 14:54:47
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has close ties to Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan, has invited Saudi Arabia’s king and crown prince to visit Kazakhstan at a meeting with another Saudi r...
-- 2018-11-01 13:00:26
Myanmar officials visited camps for Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh on Wednesday in an effort to kick-start a process to repatriate hundreds of thousands who fled an army crackdown last year....
-- 2018-11-01 11:31:11
Indonesian divers have retrieved a black box from a Lion Air jet that crashed into the sea this week with 189 aboard and brought it back to a ship on the surface, one of the divers told media on Thurs...
-- 2018-11-01 10:00:47
The outcry in the United States demonising Saudi Arabia over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul threatens US-Saudi strategic ties, the former Saudi i...
-- 2018-10-31 21:35:22
Iran on Wednesday summoned the Danish ambassador to Tehran over Copenhagen's allegations about an Iranian plot to kill an opposition activist in Denmark, the official IRNA news agency reported. Iran...
-- 2018-10-31 16:21:36
Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor held talks overnight with Turkish intelligence officials over the investigation into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul...
-- 2018-10-31 15:28:40
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday freed a Christian woman from a death sentence for blasphemy against Islam and overturned her conviction, sparking angry protests and death threats from an u...
-- 2018-10-31 12:57:45
An Afghan official says an army helicopter carrying senior officials has crashed in bad weather in the western Farah province, killing all 25 on board. Naser Mehdi, a spokesman for the provincial go...
-- 2018-10-31 12:46:16
Philippine rescue teams worked to free at least 30 people trapped under earth and rubble on Wednesday after a typhoon dumped heavy rainfall on a mountainous region, triggering floods and deadly landsl...
Reuters 2018-10-31 11:27:32
A suicide bomber blew himself up near the gate of Afghanistan’s largest prison on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding three, officials said, but there was no immediate claim of r...
Reuters 2018-10-30 11:47:39
Indonesia on Tuesday stepped up a search for an airliner that plunged into the sea with all 189 aboard feared dead, deploying underwater beacons to trace its black box recorders and uncover why an alm...
Reuters 2018-10-30 09:52:01
An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck New Zealand’s north island on Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey said, a tremor felt by thousands of people although there were no immediate repor...
-- 2018-10-29 17:50:20
Sri Lankan police arrested deposed oil minister Arjuna Ranatunga on Monday over a shooting that killed one person a day earlier. “Colombo Crime division arrested Ranatunga over the shooting inc...
-- 2018-10-29 13:32:51
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 struck the Torishima Island region in southern Japan, the weather agency said on Monday. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) the offsh...
-- 2018-10-29 11:30:18
A suicide bomber detonated explosives near Afghanistan’s election commission headquarters in Kabul on Monday, injuring at least six people, officials said. At least four officials of the Indepe...
-- 2018-10-29 10:19:56
A Lion Air flight with at least 188 people on board is believed to have sunk after crashing into the sea off Indonesia’s island of Java on Monday, shortly after take off from the capital on its...
-- 2018-10-28 19:06:52
Three people were injured in Sri Lanka on Sunday when a security guard of parliamentarian Arjuna Ranatunga, former petroleum minister under ousted prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s sacked ca...
-- 2018-10-28 11:57:41
Pakistan's Supreme Court has reinstated a ban on the transmission of Indian content on local television channels, setting aside an earlier ruling by the Lahore High Court (LHC), reports the Khaleej Ti...
-- 2018-10-27 18:25:08
South Korea's government has started military flights to rescue nationals stranded on typhoon-hit Saipan, the main island of the Northern Marianas. The US commonwealth was devastated by Super Typhoon...
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