Asia

Gardez(Afghanistan): Taliban insurgents overran a district in eastern Afghanistan, killing and wounding dozens of police and soldiers and threatening...

Bangkok: Thailand has freed a political activist after eight years in jail for insulting the country's widely revered monarchy under its draconian royal...

Dhaka: Bangladesh security forces killed three militants on Saturday including a Bangladesh-born Canadian citizen alleged to have masterminded an attack on...

Oslo: The Philippines government and Maoist-led rebels agreed indefinite ceasefires on Friday as part of an accord to accelerate efforts to end a conflict...

Manila: Philippine commandos killed 11 militants on a remote southern island on Friday, an army spokesman said, stepping up the offensive after President...

Queenstown: A Czech woman who spent nearly a month alone in a warden's hut on a remote New Zealand hiking track after her male partner was killed in a...

Seoul: One of the top executives at South Korea's Lotte Group was found dead on Friday, a suspected suicide, hours before he was to be questioned by...

Hong Kong: A Chinese general has been arrested in China for violating party discipline, a Hong Kong newspaper cited two unnamed sources as saying,...

Bangkok: A second person has died from injuries sustained when two bombs exploded earlier this week at a hotel in Thailand's southern coastal town of...

Yangon: Myanmar's army chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, reshuffled top posts on Friday, promoting his intelligence chief and other officers...