Heavily armed insurgents have attempted to storm a guesthouse in the diplomatic quarter of Kabul, Afghanistan's capital. The attack began just after 11 p.m. local time Tuesday, with heavy explosions accompanying sporadic automatic weapons fire. Polic...
Iraq's Shi'ite paramilitary volunteer force says it's leading the campaign to drive the Islamic State from Anbar Province. But the operation's codename will do nothing to ease the fears of the area's Sunni population. Dubbed Labaik ya Hussein -- it's...
A meeting to discuss the crisis in Yemen has been postponed by the UN, following a request by the Yemeni government and several other key stakeholders. The government in Yemen says it wants more time to prepare. The talks were scheduled to open in Ge...
The summer season has started in India with a ferocity not seen in recent years. More than 1,100 people have been killed as a heat wave sweeps across the country. Most of the fatalities have been reported from the southern states of Andhra Pradesh an...
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The top nuclear envoys from South Korea, the US and Japan have met in Seoul to hold talks on the DPRK amid worries about the country's atomic weapons programs. Wednesday's meeting came in the wake of the DPRK's recent claim that it had tested a new t...
Football, like all sports, is universal. Wherever you go in the world, there are kids playing in an open space, kicking a ball around. East Ukraine is no different, despite the civil war that's only been checked by the recent ceasefire. Ukraine has a...
Japan will join US and Australian troops in trilateral military drills for the first time, as the three states seek to boost security ties in the Southeast Asia region. About 40 members from Japan's Self Defense Force will be integrated into the US t...
Japan's governor of Okinawa, Takeshi Onaga, is on a visit to the US. Onaga plans to tell the US government directly that Japan opposes the US moving the Futenma airbase into its district. Onaga has said that the land reclamation permission in the cou...
Authorities and aid workers have found traffickers' boats carrying as many Bangladeshis as Rohingya, the persecuted Muslim minority fleeing Myanmar. Since early May, more than 3,600 people have landed in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Half are fro...
As the death toll from the heat wave continues to rise...one Indian artist has carved a giant sand sculpture in the country's eastern city of Puri that highlights the dangerous effects of global warming. A simple but bold message...Act fast before it...
In Syria, the four-year bloody conflict has driven many out of business. But a select few have escaped bankruptcy by embracing newly prosperous businesses affiliated with the war. It is a story about a lucrative business from an unlikely place. Profi...
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