Asia / Pacific

“Over 450 passengers onboard are being held hostage by gunmen,” Muhammad Kashif, a senior railway government official in Quetta, the capital of the province, told AFP. “Passengers include women and…

Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Tuesday in Manila by police acting on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant citing crimes against humanity tied to his deadly war on…

North Korea fired “multiple unidentified ballistic missiles” on Monday, South Korea‘s military said, the same day Seoul and Washington began a major annual joint military drill known as Freedom Shield.…

China‘s military said Sunday it would tighten its “noose” around Taiwan if separatism over the island escalated, warning proponents to step back from the “precipice” or face a “dead end”,…

“Some bully governments—I really don’t know of any more appropriate term for some foreign figures and leaders than the word bullying—insist on negotiations,” Khamenei told officials after Trump threatened military…

Australian troops were rushed to hospital on Saturday after being injured in a major road crash while responding to ex-Cyclone Alfred, which has battered a swath of the eastern coast…

A South Korean court cancelled the arrest warrant of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, but he remains behind bars with the prosecution likely to appeal. Yoon’s lawyers filed…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China will continue to retaliate to the United States’ “arbitrary tariffs” and accused Washington of “meeting good with evil” in a press conference Friday…

China unlocked more fiscal stimulus on Wednesday, promising greater efforts to support consumption and cushion the impact of an escalating trade war with the United States on an economy that…

North Korea carried out a test-launch of strategic cruise missiles in the Yellow Sea this week, in a drill Pyongyang said Friday aimed at showing off its “counterattack” capabilities. Leader…