Asia

Kabul: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck South Asia on Sunday, shaking buildings in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, witnesses and the US...

Hiroshima(Japan): In a city obliterated by a US atom bomb more than 70 years ago, Japan kicked off a gathering of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven...

Bangkok: Thai police have stepped up security after two ethnic Uighur men from China linked to "foreign terror groups" visited a holiday island, a...

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a successful test of a new engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), state media said on...

Kabul: US Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Saturday to show support for the government and to try to defuse a...

Yangon: The new government of Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi released scores of jailed activists on Friday, just over a week after assuming...

Dubai: A group affiliated with Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the killing of a liberal Bangladeshi blogger this week, the SITE monitoring service...

Hong Kong: A court in southern China on Friday jailed four activists who had publicly supported Hong Kong's pro-democracy Occupy Central movement and...

Kabul: Fighting has broken out between Afghan government forces and Taliban militants in an area in the north where battles destroyed power lines early...

Beijing: China is confident it can resolve business disagreements with Myanmar through friendly talks, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said after meeting his...