Japan weighs minister-level talks with North Korea: reports
AFP | Japan is weighing high-level, direct talks with North Korea, potentially an August meeting between the two countries' foreign ministers, local media said Wednesday. The...
US to keep confronting Beijing in S. China Sea: Mattis
AFP | Defense Secretary Jim Mattis vowed Tuesday that the US would keep confronting China over its territorial claims in the South China Sea, where...
Papua New Guinea mulls ‘temporary’ ban on Facebook
AFP | Papua New Guinea said Wednesday it was mulling a temporary shutdown of Facebook to uncover false accounts and block fake news in the...
England batting failures frustrate Bayliss
AFP | Trevor Bayliss is becoming ever more annoyed by the kind of England batting collapses which led to their "embarrassing" nine-wicket defeat by Pakistan...
Hindu Leader calls for violent cleansing of Muslims
News Analysis | A viral video of a Hindu extremist leader openly inciting ethnic cleansing on TV has been making rounds on the social media....
Russia asks Apple to help block Telegram
AFP | Russia's communications watchdog said Monday it had requested Apple help it block the popular messaging app Telegram which has been banned in the...
Trump, Abe say ‘imperative’ to dismantle N. Korean weapons
AFP | President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Monday that it is "imperative" to completely dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons and...
India to ignore US sanctions on Iran, Venezuela: minister
AFP | India will keep trading with Iran and Venezuela despite the threat of fallout from US sanctions against the two countries, Foreign Minister Sushma...
Pakistan military says ex-spy chief will not be allowed to leave country
AFP | Pakistan's military Monday took the unprecedented step of preventing a former spy chief from leaving the country, after he ignited a storm by...
Two killed in Kashmir militant attack on Indian army camp
AFP | Two people have died in a shootout in the disputed territory of Indian Kashmir, officials said Monday, the first attacks since the army...
Mistaken as child kidnapper, transgender lynched to death by Hyderabad mob
News Analysis | An Indian transgender has been beaten to death over rumors on the social media sphere that the person was the member of...
Artificial Intelligence better at finding skin cancer than doctors: study
AFP | A computer was better than human dermatologists at detecting skin cancer in a study that pitted human against the machine in the quest...