PYONGYANG – North Korea fired five short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea’s military said, amid heightened tension over...
. HAVANA (AP) — Brushing past profound differences, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro will sit down Monday at Havana’s Palace of the Revolution...
. . BELGIUM – Captured fugitive Salah Abdeslam initially planned to blow himself up outside the Stade de France during the Paris attacks but changed his...
. PYONGYANG – The North Korean Government has sentenced American student Otto F. Warmbier to 15 years of hard labor for subversion on Wednesday after he...
. . YANGON – Myanmar’s military has released 46 children and young people from service, the United Nations said in a statement on Monday, in its...
MANDALAY – Police in Myanmar seized more than $30 million worth of heroin and methamphetamine, a senior investigator told AFP on Sunday, a bust that...
. . POHANG -Â The United States and South Korean staged a big amphibious landing exercise on Saturday, storming simulated North Korean beaches, heightening tension and...
. . MANILA -Â The Government of the Philippines has stated it will not negotiate with Islamist militants demanding ransom within a month for the release...
. . PYONGYANG (Reuters) – North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Thursday in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions, as...
. . SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country has miniaturised nuclear warheads to mount on ballistic missiles and ordered improvements...
. LONDON (AP) — Sir George Martin, the Beatles’ urbane producer who quietly guided the band’s swift, historic transformation from rowdy club act to musical and...
. NEW DELHIÂ – A 15-year-old Indian girl who was raped and set on fire this week died Wednesday in the New Delhi hospital where she...
. . SHANGHAI -Â China has barred a North Korean cargo ship from one of its ports, while South Korea announced a crackdown on individuals and...
. . RANGOON — When her father died of AIDS in 2003, Pyae Phu Khaing* was just 3 years old, and only two years later her...
. BEIGING – Chinese authorities say they have detained an elevator maintenance crew after a woman was found dead inside an elevator that had its power...
. SOUTH CHINA SEA – The carrier John C. Stennis, two destroyers, two cruisers and the 7th Fleet flagship have sailed into the disputed waters in recent...
. BEIJING (AP) — China faces pressure to reassure nervous world markets about its economic and currency management at Friday’s gathering in Shanghai of finance ministers...
. JAKARTA – A ferry transporting 71 passengers capsized in the strait between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java on Friday, forcing passengers to jump...
 .  . PYONGYANG – North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong-un has ordered North Korea’s nuclear arsenal to be ready for pre-emptive use ‘anytime’ following the United Nations...
. BEIJING – As a whole generation of Chinese youth raised in a roaring economy over the past decade are coming of age in a period...