Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te began a US stopover in Hawaii on Saturday as part of a Pacific tour after declaring his democratically governed island a key fo...
LONDON - Britain’s parliament has voted in favour of a new bill to legalise assisted dying, paving the way for months of further debate on an issue that has div...
ALEPPO — Syrian rebels breached the major city of Aleppo on Friday, according to the fighters and a war monitor, raising fears that the nation's long-running ci...
KUALA LUMPUR: More than 37,000 people have been affected by flooding caused by torrential rain in six Malaysian states this week, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim s...
BEIJING - China’s defence ministry says it has urged the United States to refrain from sending any wrong signals to the forces of “Taiwan independence”.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Wednesday he would seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s military leade...
SEOUL - South Korea’s capital was blanketed on Wednesday by the heaviest November snowfall on record, with bad weather snarling traffic, knocking out power and...
WASHINGTON - The United States has brokered the release of three Americans it said had been wrongfully detained in China for many years, the White House said in...