. . LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday attacked what he called “passive tolerance” of some people in Britain’s Muslim communities who support segregation and discrimination against women, and said...
. . DAVOS – Business leaders and Politicians gathering in the Swiss Alps this week face an increasingly divided world, with the poor falling further behind...
. . TAIPEI – Taiwan’s Opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen has won a convincing victory in the presidential election held Saturday and pledged to maintain peace with...
. . TAIPEI – She is a 16-year-old singer from Taiwan, who performs with a South Korea girl band, on Saturday Chou Tzu-yu, 周子瑜 , became...
. . SEOUL – Taiwanese singer Tzuyu is cancelling her activities in China after the member of multinational K-pop group Twice waved the Taiwanese flag during...
. . NAGANO – Fourteen people have been killed and 27 were injured when a packed bus on an overnight journey crashed in the early hours...
. . HOKKAIDO – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck just off Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Thursday, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warning...
. . MANILA – The Philippines supreme court upheld a military accord with the United States cleared the way for U.S. troops to deploy to the...
. . LONDON – Legendary singer David Bowie has died at 69, he died peacefully surrounded by his family after a courageous 18-month battle with cancer....
. . NEW DELI – A 13 year old Indian girl held captive for two weeks by a gang of men said in an interview broadcast today...
. . NEW YORK -United States Presidential front-runner Donald Trump, who has remained atop the polls despite little advertising, is out with the first TV ad...
. . BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for criminally convicted asylum seekers to be deported more quickly, responding with tough language to allegations of...
. . BERLIN – Three young Syrian immigrants have been arrested after two teenage girls were gang raped in a horrific New Year’s Eve sex attack...
. . SYRIA – A 20 year old Ali Saqr al-Qasem Islamic State militant executed his mother Lena al-Qasem in public in the Syrian city of...
. . BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced outrage Tuesday at a series of sexual assaults in the western city of Cologne on New Year’s...
. . PYONGYANG – North Korea announced Wednesday that it successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test, a claim that if true would mark a huge jump...
. . HANOI – Vietnam’s leadership is accelerating a decade-long drive to modernize its armed forces in the biggest military re-armament program since the end of...
. . YANGON – In only her second public speech since the election in November, Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday marked the Southeast...
. . BEIJING – China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters that China, rejects protests from Vietnam over a flight test it has conducted on...
. . TEHRAN – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday warned Saudi Arabia of “divine revenge” over the execution of an opposition Shiite cleric...