Japan PM Kishida fires aide over same-sex couple outburst
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday fired an aide who said he wouldn’t want to live next to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender couples and warned that people ...
UN rights rapporteur urges release of detained Afghan education activist
The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights called on Afghanistan’s Taliban administration on Friday to release a university lecturer and education activist detained by security forces in the ...
China’s CanSino confident its mRNA Covid vaccine as good as Moderna, Pfizer shots
CanSino Biologics Chief Executive Yu Xuefeng said on Friday he was confident his company’s experimental Covid-19 vaccine using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology was as good as shots from Moderna ...
Crypto hacks stole record $3.8 billion in 2022, led by North Korea groups
Last year was the worst on record for cryptocurrency heists, with hackers stealing as much as $3.8 billion, led by attackers linked to North Korea who netted more than ever before, ...
North Korea: US drills threaten to turn region into critical war zone
North Korea said on Thursday that drills by the United States and its allies have reached an “extreme red-line” and threaten to turn the peninsula into a “huge war arsenal ...
Iran vows revenge as it blames Israel for Isfahan drone attack
Iran blamed Israel for a drone attack on a military factory near the central city of Isfahan, the semi-official ISNA news agency said on Thursday, vowing revenge for what appeared ...
Pakistan mosque bombing death toll rises to 87
The death toll in the suicide bombing that tore through a mosque in Pakistan rose to 87 on Tuesday, a hospital official said, a day after the one of the biggest ...
The 2 per cent target: Central banks’ inflation touchstone faces post-pandemic reckoning
Top central bankers, who credit the use of a 2 per cent inflation target with anchoring decades of stable prices, are facing the first full-on test of how well that approach ...
Suicide bomber kills 59 in Pakistan mosque used by police (Update 6)
A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a crowded mosque in a highly fortified security compound in Pakistan on Monday, killing 59 people, including 27 police officials, the latest in a string ...
Nissan and Renault agree to overhaul alliance, this time as equals
Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) and Renault SA (RENA.PA) agreed on Monday to a sweeping remake of their two-decade-old automaking alliance that will put them on equal footing and see ...
Over 40 killed in Pakistan bus crash, 10 children drown when boat capsizes
More than 40 people were killed after a bus fell into a ravine and caught fire in the southern Pakistani province of Balochistan on Sunday, officials said.
On the same day ...
India expects more clashes with Chinese troops in Himalayas
A security assessment by Indian police in the Himalayan region of Ladakh says there could be more clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along their contested frontier there as Beijing ...
North Korea slams United States for pledging tanks to Ukraine
North Korea on Saturday denounced U.S. pledges of battle tanks to Ukraine, claiming Washington was “further crossing the red line” to win hegemony by proxy war, state media KCNA ...
Lexus chief to take over Toyota as founder’s grandson steps down
The chief executive of Toyota Motor Corp will step down as head of the company his grandfather founded, the Japanese automaker said on Thursday, handing over to the boss of ...
FBI says N. Korea-related hacker group behind US crypto firm heist
This Jan. 23 story has been officially corrected to say one hacker group, not two, in the headline and paragraph 1
A hacker group associated with North Korea, the Lazarus Group, also ...
U.S. sees some Chinese companies helping Russia’s Ukraine effort -source
The United States has determined that some Chinese companies are providing non-lethal assistance to Russia for use in the Ukraine war and officials are noting their concern to the Chinese ...
Twelve rescued after building collapses in India; more feared trapped
Rescue workers pulled 12 people, including two children, out of the rubble after a residential apartment block collapsed in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, but more were feared trapped inside, ...
Pakistan scrambles to restore power after second major grid breakdown
Pakistan’s government said it was scrambling to restore power to millions of people on Monday after a breakdown in the grid triggered the worst electricity outage in months and ...
Chinese pray for health in Lunar New Year as Covid death toll rises
By Alessandro Diviggiano
China rang in the Lunar New Year on Sunday with its people praying for health after three years of stress and financial hardship under the pandemic, as ...
Search resumes for four people missing in Nepal after deadly air crash
Rescuers resumed searching on Monday in Nepal for four people still missing after the Himalayan nation’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said.
Rescuers had recovered 68 bodies out of ...
At least 68 killed in Nepal’s worst air crash in three decades (Update 2)
At least 68 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight of Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, the worst air crash in three decades in the small Himalayan ...
At least 40 killed in Nepal air crash
At least 40 people were killed on Sunday when an aircraft of domestic carrier Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, a Nepal aviation authority official said.
“Rescue operations are on,” ...
China reports 59,938 Covid-related hospital deaths since Dec. 8
China said nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital since it abruptly dismantled its zero-COVID policy in early December, a big increase from previously reported figures that follows global ...
US calls for UN to urge Taliban to reverse bans on women
The United States on Friday pushed the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution calling on the Taliban-led authorities in Afghanistan to reverse bans on women working for aid groups ...