MANILA: Nineteen people were killed and 21 others injured when a bus veered off the road and plunged down a…

LAGOS: Boko Haram Islamists who kidnapped more than 100 schoolgirls in Dapchi, northeast Nigeria, just over a month ago have…

BANGKOK: Asia is a critical battlefield in the global fight to rein in air pollution, registering about 5 million premature…

WASHINGTON: US lawmakers aimed to thread the needle Tuesday on an enormous federal spending bill, rushing to meet a looming…

YANGON: Myanmar’s President Htin Kyaw resigned suddenly yesterday leaving the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi without a close…

JERUSALEM: Israel for the first time confirmed that it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, saying yesterday that the…

AMMAN: A Russian-brokered deal has been reached to evacuate a Syrian rebel group from a town in Eastern Ghouta to opposition-held…

KABUL: A suicide bomber blew himself up near a Shi’ite shrine in Kabul yesterday, killing at least 26 people and wounding…