Asia

Bangkok: A draft constitution for army-run Thailand to be unveiled this month will be "strong medicine", the constitution panel head said on...

Sydney: Conservationists in Australia's oldest Antarctic outpost have scraped away a hundred years of snow and ice to unearth items, from bullets to a...

Kabul: Afghanistan will hold postponed parliamentary elections in October, the top election official said on Monday, after last June's deadline to...

Jakarta: Another person has died from injuries sustained in last week's militant attack in Indonesia's capital, police officials said on Sunday,...

Taipei/Beijing:Taiwan should abandon its "hallucinations" about pushing for independence, as any moves towards it would be a "poison",...

Jalalabad(Afghanistan): A suicide bomber killed 13 people in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Sunday at the home of a tribal elder when people had...

Washington/Ankara: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hailed the nuclear deal as a "golden page" in Iran's history and said the agreement could...

New York: Iran emerged from years of economic isolation on Saturday when world powers lifted crippling sanctions against the Islamic Republic in return for...

Jakarta: Indonesian police on Saturday named the five men they suspect launched this week’s gun and bomb attack in the heart of Jakarta and said they had...

Colombo: The Maldives on Saturday granted permission for jailed former leader Mohamed Nasheed to travel to Britain for surgery after pressure from the...