Asia

Yangon: Myanmar's new president has pardoned 83 prisoners held for political crimes, officials said on Sunday, just weeks after the first government in...

Tokyo: Japanese rescue teams on Sunday scoured the splintered remains of buildings destroyed by a series of deadly earthquakes in southern Japan as time ran...

Kunduz(Afghanistan): Afghan forces fought back a renewed series of attacks on Kunduz, killing dozens of Taliban fighters, officials said on Sunday as...

Kunduz(Afghanistan): Afghan security forces drove back Taliban insurgents attacking areas around the northern city of Kunduz, officials said on Saturday,...

Manila: Militants seized four Indonesian crew of a tugboat in the southern Philippines on Friday night, the third attack on slow moving vessels in about a...

Jakarta: Indonesian authorities moved inmate Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, the radical cleric and alleged mastermind of the Bali bombings, to a high security...

Tokyo: Japanese rescuers were digging through the rubble of buildings and mud on Saturday to reach dozens believed trapped after a powerful 7.3 magnitude...

Kunduz (Afghanistan): Hundreds of Taliban insurgents have launched an offensive to seize the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, which they captured and held...

Seoul: North Korea attempted and failed to launch what experts believe was an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Friday in defiance of UN sanctions and...

Tokyo: A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck southern Japan early on Saturday morning, triggering a tsunami advisory. The quake's epicentre was near the...