COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Marxist candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake led the early counting in Sri Lanka’s presidential elections Sunday, riding a wave of popular an...
BEIRUT/CAIRO - Israel and Lebanon exchanged heavy fire into Sunday, with Israeli warplanes carrying out the most intense bombardment in almost a year of war acr...
Indonesian and New Zealand authorities rejoiced over the weekend as Philip Mehrtens, a New Zealand pilot held hostage for 19 months by a Papuan armed group, wal...
China will gradually resume importing Japanese marine products, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Friday.
TAIPEI - A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan’s sparsely populated east coast county of Hualien on Saturday, the island’s weather administration said, with...
BEIRUT - At least 37 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb on Friday, including three children and seven women along with 16 Hezbollah f...
BEIJING - China and Japan reached a consensus in August on the discharge of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant, the Chinese Foreign Ministry sai...
TAIPEI - Taiwan's constitutional court ruled on Friday that the death penalty is constitutional but only for the most serious crimes with the most rigorous lega...