PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Pakistani court has ordered the release of a radical anti-U.S. cleric who went to Afghanistan with thousands of volunteers to help the...
SEOUL — The first round of talks on normalizing relations between South Korea and North Korea began on Tuesday morning in the border township of Panmunjom,...
CAIRO — Egypt will hold its presidential election over three days in March, officials said Monday, with President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi virtually guaranteed to run for and...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Japan’s Olympics minister says he is visiting Rio de Janeiro to learn from the city’s experience hosting the 2016 Summer Games. Shunichi...
CANBERRA, Australia — Same-sex couples married in midnight ceremonies across Australia on Tuesday after the country’s last legal impediment to gay marriage expired. Marriage equality became...
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — Senior officials from North and South Korea began the rivals’ first formal talks in about two years Tuesday to discuss how...
BANGKOK — Myanmar is set to put two reporters from the Reuters news agency on trial this week after they were charged under a colonial-era state...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s first female police chief resigned Monday amid a spike in killings while thousands of officers continue to call in...
BANGKOK — Thailand’s prime minister evaded journalists’ questions on Monday by bringing out a life-sized cardboard cutout of himself and telling the reporters to quiz it...
SYDNEY — A remote-island off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea is continuing to spew volcanic ash on Monday, causing several hundred residents to flee their...