US Secretary of State visits largest mosque in Southeast Asia
JAKARTA: US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Southeast Asia’s largest mosque during his visit to Indonesia yesterday, paying tribute…
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Search resumes for seven Japanese divers missing near Bali
DENPASAR, Indonesia: Indonesian rescuers yesterday resumed their search for seven Japanese scuba divers who vanished during a dive near Bali…
Australia says Indonesia free to raise asylum policy with US
SYDNEY: Australia said Jakarta was free to bring up Canberra’s hardline asylum-seeker policy with the United States after the Indonesian…
Viet activists mark 1979 border war
HANOI: Vietnamese activists yesterday marked the 35th anniversary of a bloody border war with China, chanting slogans, singing patriotic songs…
Marathoners voice support for press freedom in Hong Kong
HONG KONG: Runners in Hong Kong’s annual street marathon donned blue ribbons on their sports vests yesterday to show their…
Powerful Iraqi Shiite cleric Sadr quits politics
NAJAF, Iraq: Firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, leader of a powerful political movement and a major figure in the formation…
Hundreds of cars stuck in snow-hit Japan
TOKYO: Hundreds of cars are stuck on a hillside trunk road in Japan after it was hit by a snowstorm…
Craigslist killer suspect claims 22 murders
A WOMAN charged with the murder of a man lured to a Pennsylvania rendezvous through the website Craigslist has admitted…