Tag: Asia

South African police Wednesday arrested a 24-year-old woman with 20 kilogrammes of rhino horn before boarding a flight bound for ...

Bangladeshi twins born conjoined at the skull will undergo a difficult and potentially dangerous operation to separate them, surgeons said ...

Beijing issued a warning to Botswana Wednesday over its plans to host the Dalai Lama next month, asking the African ...

A tense standoff was underway between Israel and Muslim worshippers at a Jerusalem holy site Wednesday despite the removal of ...

A vicious combination of war, cholera and hunger has left 80 percent of Yemeni children in desperate need of aid, ...

Asia's football governing body has dealt a major boost to the Indian Super League by ruling that its franchise-based teams ...

The White House welcomed Israel's decision to remove metal detectors from a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site on Tuesday after ...

Rohingya Muslim Ayamar Bagon has lived on handouts since her husband left her after she told him she was gang-raped ...

US President Donald Trump accused Syria's leader Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday of committing "horrible" crimes against humanity, and vowed to ...

Journalists and human rights activists on Tuesday denounced "threats" by Saudi Arabia and its allies against Qatari media organisations, including ...

Sri Lanka's government Tuesday approved the sale to China of a majority stake in a loss-making but strategically-sited deep sea ...

Kenedy has been sent home from Chelsea's pre-season tour of Asia as punishment for his offensive social media posts about ...

A Vietnamese activist was jailed for nine years on Tuesday for "anti-state activity", her lawyer said, the second such heavy ...

China on Tuesday called on the United States to stop "unfriendly" and "dangerous" military flights after two Chinese fighter jets ...

Washington's ban on US citizens travelling to North Korea will have no effect on the country's tourism industry and Pyongyang ...

Beijing urged Southeast Asian nations on Tuesday to unite and "say no" to outside forces seeking to interfere in the ...

Thai police on Tuesday announced the seizure of drugs worth $30 million, including seven million methamphetamine tablets, "ice" and liquid ...

At least 10 journalists were killed in Afghanistan in the first half of 2017, a 35 percent surge from last ...

Israel removed metal detectors from a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site before dawn on Tuesday and said they would no ...

Justin Bieber has cancelled the rest of his Purpose World Tour because of “unforeseen circumstances”, his publicist has said. The ...