Santa Monica (California): Veteran social activist and politician Tom Hayden, a stalwart of America's New Left who served 18 years in California's...
Manila: The most senior US diplomat for Asia assured the Philippines on Monday that Washington remained its "trusted" ally and that it supported...
Bangkok: Human rights activists on Monday called on Thailand's junta to drop sedition charges against a rights lawyer in the first such case against an...
Seoul: South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday proposed amending the constitution to allow presidents to serve multiple terms or to establish a...
Tokyo: Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and later to conquer the world's seven highest peaks, has died at the age of 77, Japanese...
Valletta: A light aircraft crashed after taking off from Malta's main airport early on Monday, killing all five people on board, officials there said,...
New Delhi: The Goods and Services Tax law will boost domestic demand, create more opportunities for domestic business and drive job creation, Prime Minister...
Beirut: The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said on Sunday the door to electing a president was "wide open"...
Dubai: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday the choice offered to voters in the US presidential election was between "bad and worse"...