Asia

Kabul/Hanoi: Senior Afghan Taliban figures were meeting on Monday to agree on a successor to Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the leader of the militant movement who...

Hanoi: The United States announced an end to its embargo on sales of lethal arms to Vietnam on Monday, an historic step that draws a line under the two...

Bangkok: Thai police shot dead a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar on Monday during a dramatic mass escape of detainees from an immigration camp in southern...

Wiang Pa Pao District, Chiang Rai, (Thailand): Fire swept through a dormitory at a school for girls from poor hill-tribe families in Thailand, killing at...

Almaty: Tajikistan's President Imomali Rakhmon will be able to run for an unlimited number of terms after a series of constitutional amendments were...

Kathmandu/Sydney: A 43-year-old Indian mountaineer has died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest, in the third fatality on the world's...

Manila: Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte's vow to root out crime and drug abuse will get a boost from the country's first-time acting win...

Bangkok: Two years to the day that Thailand's army toppled the remnants of her government, former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra called on the junta...

Kabul/Washington: The United States has killed the leader of the Afghan Taliban in an air strike in a remote border area just inside Pakistan, Afghanistan...

Jakarta: Seven people have died and two are in critical condition after Mount Sinabung on Sumatra island erupted on Saturday, said an Indonesian disaster...