Tag: Geography of Asia

Dozens of people have been injured in a double bombing, believed to have been set off by Muslim separatists, in ...

Jakarta's Christian governor, who was jailed for blasphemy Tuesday, won much praise for his efforts to clean up the traffic-choked ...

Through sombre black and white drawings, graphic novelist Malik Sajad tells the brutal story of his native Kashmir in the ...

Russia on Monday faced resistance from Western powers to a bid to win UN Security Council backing for an agreement ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said debates over the possibility of moving the US embassy in Israel from ...

The United States is closely examining whether a Russia-brokered deal to establish safe zones in Syria can work in the ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on Monday his country would reject any United Nations role in monitoring the implementation ...

Compared to their ultra-violent Central and Latin American cousins, the drug dealers of Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle use their low-profile ...

Palestinian fashion designer Natalie Tahhan is hard at work in her Jerusalem studio, replacing the painstaking processes of cross-stitching and ...

Egypt's parliament on Sunday adopted a law whose aim is to attract foreign investors to the country as authorities seek ...

Negotiations were under way on Sunday on evacuating insurgents and their families from two districts in Damascus, a Syrian military ...

North Korea announced Sunday it had detained a US citizen for "hostile acts" -- its second arrest in a fortnight ...

Suspected militants launched an attack in Indian Kashmir killing three civilians and a policeman, the latest violence to hit the ...

Fighting subsided in Syria on Saturday after a deal signed by government backers Russia and Iran and rebel supporter Turkey ...

Several plumes of smoke rise above Iraq's main Christian town Qaraqosh, but this time it isn't the Islamic State jihadist ...

A giant coal-fired power plant approved by Bangladesh could drastically worsen air pollution for millions and cause the early deaths ...

Russia on Friday said it had already stopped bombing in areas of Syria set to be designated safe zones under ...

The executive board of the UN's cultural agency ratified Friday a resolution that identifies Israel as "the occupying power" in ...

Saudi women no longer need a man's consent to carry out certain activities, local media reported on Friday, but activists ...

A giant coal-fired power plant approved by Bangladesh could drastically worsen air pollution for millions and cause the early deaths ...