TOKYO: Philippine President Benigno Aquino likened present day China to Nazi Germany yesterday during a speech in Japan, suggesting the…

MEXICO CITY: A leftist candidate for Mexico’s Congress was murdered in a suburb of the capital on Tuesday, becoming the…

UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES): The UN Security Council on Tuesday backed a call by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for a…

TEHRAN: A bus carrying Iraqi tourists plunged off a mountain road into a valley in northern Iran Tuesday, killing 24 holidaymakers…

SHANGHAI: Rescuers fought bad weather yesterday as they searched for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists,…

SEOUL: South Korea yesterday reported its first two deaths from an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) that has…

YANGON: Myanmar’s navy is escorting a boat crammed with 727 abandoned migrants to the waters of neighbouring Bangladesh, four days…

BANGKOK: A Thai court has issued an arrest warrant for a high-ranking army officer over human trafficking, police said yesterday,…