Tag: Geography of Asia

Cyclone Mora hit Bangladesh Tuesday packing winds of up to 117 kilometres per hour (73mph) after authorities evacuated hundreds of ...

The sound of the blast in Syria's capital Damascus brought worried residents running, but rather than carnage they found a ...

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a popular Baghdad ice cream shop, killing at least eight people, security ...

Fourteen civilians were killed late Monday when Islamic State group jihadists shelled a government-controlled neighbourhood of Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor ...

At least 180 people have now been confirmed dead in the worst flooding to hit Sri Lanka for 14 years. ...

Egypt's president has signed into law a contentious new bill to regulate non-governmental organisations, the official gazette said on Monday, ...

Bangladesh has evacuated nearly 300,000 people as Cyclone Mora barrelled towards its southeastern coast at speeds of more than 85 ...

More than 1,000 people quit a rebel-held district of Damascus Monday, its governor said, in the final phase of a ...

A shallow, 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit inland on the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Monday, US seismologists said, causing people ...

Qatar has deported a Saudi human rights activist who was on his way to Norway where he hoped to seek ...

Sri Lanka's monsoon toll climbed to 164 with the discovery of more bodies of people buried in landslides triggered by ...

Israel's government on Sunday approved plans to install a cable car to Jerusalem's Old City, a project likely to anger ...

US Homeland Security John Kelly said Sunday that he was considering banning laptop computers on international flights into and out ...

Afridun Amu, the first competitor to represent Afghanistan at the World Surfing Games, had no illusions about his chances of ...

At least 15 members of a single family were killed when a pickup truck veered off the road and plunged ...

China on Sunday denied the Pentagon's charge that an encounter between Chinese fighters and a US surveillance plane over the ...

A UAE lawyer sentenced to 10 years in 2013 for plotting against the regime was on Saturday awarded a major ...

A cargo plane crashed Saturday as it was trying to land at a small airport near Mount Everest, seriously injuring ...

The funeral of some victims killed in the attack took place later in the day (EPA) Egyptian forces have struck ...

For star trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, famed for his award-winning film soundtracks and jazz-inspired mixing of eastern and western sounds, improvisation ...