CAIRO, Arab League (AL) Chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit warned Tuesday that the killing of Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh by Houthi rebels threatens an "explosion in the...

  MOGADISHU, The death toll in the Oct. 14 truck bombing in Mogadishu has risen to 512, a national committee appointed by the government said in its final report,...

    TOKYO, Some 60 percent of eligible women in Japan are reluctant to start a love relationship due to the growing burden at work, The Japan Times...

  BEIJING,  A magnitude-6.0 earthquake jolted 19 km northeast of Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador, at 1119 GMT on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.  The epicenter, with a...

    YANGON,  Pope Francis's embrace of the Rohingya during a trip to Bangladesh has sparked some angry comment on social media in Myanmar, where just days earlier...

  MOGADISHU,  The UN health agency said Sunday it is suffering a funding gap of 5 million U.S. dollars required to maintain its first line health response operations in...

  WASHINGTON, US President Donald Trump denied Sunday having asked then FBI director James Comey to drop an investigation into former national security advisor Michael Flynn, who has since...

SANAA, Yemeni strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh said Saturday he was open to talks with the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels, as his alliance with the Huthi insurgents appeared to be...

  SEOUL, Thirteen people were killed and two were missing after a fishing boat collided with a tanker off South Korea's west coast and capsized early Sunday, the country's...

  Washington,  US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis will visit Pakistan next week as part of a four-nation tour during which he is expected to pressure Islamabad to do more...

TEHRAN-A huge earthquake measuring 7.3 magnitude struck near the Iran-Iraq border area on Sunday, killing 129 and injuring over thousands, according to Iran's official media Monday.  The quake's epicenter...

SEOUL (Xinhua) - Defense chiefs of South Korea and the United States agreed Saturday to expand rotational deployment of U.S. strategic military assets to the Korean Peninsula to counter the...

SEOUL (AFP) - US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis warned Saturday that North Korea would face a "massive military response" if Pyongyang ever used its nuclear weapons. "Make no mistake --...

HANOI (AFP) - The 10-year-old daughter of Vietnamese dissident blogger "Mother Mushroom" has written a letter calling on the US First Lady to push for her mother's release from prison...

MADRID - Madrid on Saturday dismissed the chief of Catalonia's regional police, the Mossos d'Esquadra, a day after imposing direct control on the region over a bid to break away...