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Ukrainian military officials said on Tuesday that pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine have resumed the use of rocket launchers that should have been withdrawn under a February peace deal. The…

The ferry captain who abandoned hundreds of passengers, mostly high school students, in South Korea’s worst maritime disaster was sentenced to life imprisonment Tuesday. An appeals court…

The presidents of Myanmar and the Philippines have called for “people-to-people connectivity” as among the crucial developments for the launch of a Southeast Asian economic community slated for…

The United States’ involvement in the conflict in Yemen is generally understood in terms of first, the specter of al-Qaeda exploiting the civil war conditions to its advantage, and secondly, the…

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was reelected on Monday with 94.5 percent of the vote in polls in a widely expected victory, the National Electoral Commission said. “The number of votes obtained…

Afghan officials said Monday that five civilians were killed when a bomb detonated inside a house in the southern Zabul Province, while Taliban insurgents are clashing with police in the north.…

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev won a new term at the helm of Central Asia’s largest economy by a landslide in Sunday’s election, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said.

Riyadh Yaseen, the foreign minister of Yemen’s fugitive president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi on Sunday rejected a call for peace talks issued by former president Ali Abdullah Saleh amid a Saudi-led…

More than 3,720 people were confirmed killed in the Nepal 7.8 magnitude quake, and more than 6,500 were injured, the government said on Monday.

A senior interior ministry official said…

A severe storm in northwest Pakistan, dubbed a “mini-cyclone”, tore roofs of buildings and brought down trees and power poles in Pakistan, killing 45 people and injuring more than 200. The…

Israeli armed forces on Sunday killed four people when they tried to plant bombs near the Golan Heights on the country’s border with war-torn Syria, a security source said. The incident occurred…

Millions of Kazakhs cast their votes on Sunday in the energy-rich Central Asian country in a ballot that is almost certain to re-elect the 74-year-old strongman incumbent Nursultan Nazarbayev.…

The trial of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, deposed by the army and sentenced to 20 years in jail, was “badly flawed” and appears to have been politically motivated, Human Rights Watch…

In the UK, students leaving university average 60,000 euro in debt and scores of them have joined the Occupy movement launched this year in several British universities. They oppose what they…

The largest Serb party in Bosnia said on Saturday it would push for a referendum on independence for the country’s autonomous Serb Republic in 2018 unless the region is granted greater powers.

Venezuelan authorities moved a prominent opposition leader from a military prison to a private clinic and eventual house arrest early Saturday. The transfer of Antonio Ledezma, the mayor of…

The Islamic State declared its official presence in war-torn Yemen as the militant group posted a video online, threading to “cut the throats” of Houthi forces.

Computer hackers from Russia gained access to US President Barack Obama’s email account last year in a breach of classified systems in Washington DC, according to a report in Saturday’s edition of…

Rescuers in Nepal searched frantically Sunday for survivors of a huge quake that has killed more than 2,200 people, digging through rubble in the devastated capital Kathmandu and airlifting…

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the killing of prominent women’s rights activist Sabeen Mahmud in the port city of Karachi and ordered an investigation into the attack.

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has appealed to Indonesia to stop the planned executions of nine prisoners within days for drug-related crimes.

The Islamic State militant group claimed an attack Saturday by French, Belgian and Senegalese suicide bombers on the Iraq-Jordan border that officials said killed at least four Iraqi security…

Police from seven European countries detained 26 people and seized hundreds of horse passports in a crackdown against a Europe-wide horsemeat trafficking ring, the EU's judicial agency Eurojust…

Over 1,000 people are known to have died in a powerful earthquake in Nepal, with many more feared trapped under rubble. The quake measured 7.8 and struck an area between the capital Kathmandu and…

The United States has asked for access to Philippine military bases in eight locations to rotate troops, aircraft, and ships as Washington shifts its forces to Asia and as China expands its…