At least 27 people were feared killed on Friday when a fire broke out in a commercial building in a shopping district in the Japanese city...
Dozens of women protested Thursday in Kabul, demanding the right to education, jobs and political representation from the Taliban government. Although public protests are effectively banned...
The Taliban didn’t take the Afghan capital — they were invited, says the man who issued the invitation. In an Associated Press interview, former Afghan President...
More than 300 people were trapped inside Hong Kong’s World Trade Centre on Wednesday after a fire broke out in the building in the busy shopping...
The Biden administration will seek to bolster economic and security cooperation with Southeast Asia through a visit to the region next week by its top diplomat,...
The United States on Friday imposed extensive human rights-related sanctions on dozens of people and entities tied to China, Myanmar, North Korea and Bangladesh, and added...
Thousands of Indian farmers were packing their belongings and dismantling tent cities on Saturday as they headed home from the Delhi outskirts following a year-long protest...
The United Nations’ human rights office is finalizing its assessment of the situation in China’s Xinjiang region, where Uyghurs are alleged to have been unlawfully detained,...
Gunmen attacked two police providing security for polio vaccination workers in northwest Pakistan, shooting and killing one and wounding the other, officials said on Saturday. Mohammad...
A gunman shot and killed a journalist who was watching TV at a store in a central Philippine city, in a brazen attack in what has...
Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are suing Meta Platforms Inc, formerly known as Facebook, for US$150 billion over allegations that the social media company did not take...