TOKYO: Japanese author Haruki Murakami has asked for the withdrawal of his nomination for an alternative to the Nobel Prize…

SEOUL: South Korean President Moon Jae-in travels to Pyongyang this week for his third summit with Kim Jong Un, looking…

YANGON: Myanmar police are hunting dozens of escaped inmates who hijacked a delivery truck and smashed through the gates of…

JERUSALEM: A Palestinian fatally stabbed an Israeli man near the entrance to a mall in the occupied West Bank yesterday…

YANGON: At least 100 Myanmar youth activists and journalists called for the release of two jailed Reuters journalists yesterday, warning…

MATARAM, Indonesia: A malaria outbreak has infected at least 137 people in Indonesia’s West Lombok after the island was rocked by…

BERLIN: Nine environmental activists were injured and 34 detained in an operation to evict protesters holed up in forest treehouses…

JOLO, Philippines: Three Indonesian fishermen held by members of a notorious kidnap-for-ransom group have walked free 18 months after they…