Torrential rain in Taiwan kills four over past week
Storms dumped more than two metres of rain in parts of Taiwan over the past week, killing four people and triggering floods and landslides in central and southern areas...
Tourism boom sparks backlash in historic heart of Athens
Surrounded by a hubbub of blaring music, restaurant terraces and rumbling suitcase wheels slaloming between overflowing litter bins, Giorgos Zafeiriou believes surging...
Hong Kong cancels passports and bans financial support for 16 overseas activists
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities on Monday strengthened a crackdown on 16 overseas-based activists who were previously targeted by bounties on suspicion of endang...
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A year after a bloody uprising, Bangladesh is far from political stability...
Singapore property tycoon linked to jailed minister pleads guilty
By Jun Yuan YongSINGAPORE (Reuters) -Property tycoon Ong Beng Seng pleaded guilty to one charge of obstructing justice on Monday in a landmark corruption case that led...
Two people killed after bus collides with train in Russia's Leningrad region
(Reuters) -At least two people were killed and 10 others injured when a bus collided with a freight train in Russia's Leningrad region, the regional railway administrat...
India and the Philippines stage joint sail and naval drill in the disputed South China Sea
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — India and the Philippines staged joint sail and naval exercises in the disputed South China Sea for the first time, a high-profile military d...
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The UN says 68 African migrants were killed when a boat capsized off Yemen...
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A year after a bloody uprising, Bangladesh is far from political stability...
80 years on, Korean survivors of WWII atomic bombs still suffer
Bae Kyung-mi was five years old when the Americans dropped "Little Boy", the atomic bomb that flattened Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.Like thousands of other ethnic Korea...