ISLAMABAD (Xinhua) - The U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is likely to pay a stopover visit to Pakistan on Tuesday to discuss joint efforts against terrorism and expanding economic...

MOSCOW  (AFP) - An unknown assailant on Monday forced his way into the office of a Russian radio station that is critical of the Kremlin and stabbed a presenter in...

TOKYO- Japan's ruling camp grouped by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior partner, the Komeito Party, has won a two-thirds "super majority" in Sunday's lower...

ISLAMABAD- A Pakistani court indicted ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif on corruption charges spiralling from the Panama Papers leak, a senior government official said Thursday, in a case that...

NEW DELHI- India Thursday celebrated Diwali, with people across the country lighting earthen lamps in their homes, bursting firecrackers and distributing sweets to mark the Hindu festival of lights.  ...

SANAA (Xinhua) - The death toll of the Cholera epidemic in war-ravaged Yemen has risen to 2,151 since it broke out in late April, the World Health Organization (WHO) said...

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua) - Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Wednesday condemned Sunday's deadliest shooting in Las Vegas, the United States, that killed at least 59 people and...

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Scientists Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson were awarded the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for cryo-electron microscopy, a simpler and better method for imaging tiny,...

SUVA (Xinhua) - The Vanuatu authorities on Wednesday evacuated the entire population, of about 11,600 people, from the island of Ambae where the Manaro Voui volcano has been erupting, the...

TRIPOLI (AFP) - At least four people were killed Wednesday in an Islamic State group suicide bomb attack at the main court building in Libya's third-largest city Misrata, security officials...

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AFP) - Two civilians were killed and two others were wounded after Indian troops fired into Pakistani Kashmir Wednesday, in the latest cross-border violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours....

KABUL (Xinhua) - Up to 81 militants have been killed and 19 others wounded during Afghan security forces' operations across the country within one day, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.  ...

BRUSSELS (AFP) - The EU on Monday called for dialogue to solve the crisis over Catalonia's banned independence referendum and for an end to violence in a cautious first reaction...

BUDAPEST (AFP) - Hungary's main leftist party was rocked Monday when its challenger to Prime Minister Viktor Orban at upcoming elections quit over his failure to build a pact with...

GENEVA (AFP) - The UN rights chief said Monday he was disturbed by the violence during a police crackdown on the banned independence referendum in the Spanish region of Catalonia...