BANGKOK — Activist Nyo Tun spent 10 years as a political prisoner locked away by Myanmar’s military in the notorious Insein prison, where he endured beatings...
MEXICO CITY — More than 100 people have been injured as a powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Peru, the country’s National Emergency Operations Center...
HANOI — The Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has proposed raising retirement ages from the current 60 to 62 for men and from 55...
NEW DELHI — Moshe Holtzberg, a young boy whose parents were killed at a Jewish centre in Mumbai during the 2008 terror attack, returned to that...
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A fire ripped through a 17th century Dutch colonial building that houses a maritime museum in the Indonesian capital, causing extensive damage to its historical...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates claimed Qatari fighter jets intercepted two of its commercial airliners in international airspace on the way to...
CANBERRA, Australia — People in Papua New Guinea are being warned that an eruption of a volcano in the South Pacific nation could also cause a...
CANBERRA, Australia — The father of a teenager who spent 30 hours trapped in a car wreck in Australian woods said Tuesday he had followed his...
Mahmoud al-Qouqa can’t imagine life without the three sacks of flour, cooking oil and other staples he receives from the United Nations every three months. Living...
Two high-level Security Council meetings this week will focus on “confidence building” measures to deal with weapons of mass destruction where North Korea is expected to...