Hundreds of thousands gather in S.Korea for 5th week of protests against Park
Hundreds of thousands rallied in central Seoul on Saturday for a fifth week of protests against President Park Geun-hye, in the largest ongoing series of demonstrations in the country since…
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies aged 90
HAVANA – Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied US efforts to topple him,…
Indonesia arrests militant planning bomb strike on Myanmar embassy
JAKARTA – Police in Indonesia have arrested a suspected Islamist militant and seized a large quantity of bomb making material that he planned to use in attacks on government buildings…
Police in Vietnam seize 120 live cobra snakes on bus
Vietnamese police have seized 120 live cobras after stopping a bus in the country’s central Dak Nong district, state media reports. According to Tuoi Tre newspaper, the elapid snakes were being…
Australia says Islamic State recruiter arrested in Turkey
An Australian citizen believed to be a top recruiter for Islamic State has been arrested by Turkish authorities and will be subject to a formal extradition request from Australia, the Australian…
Vietnam seizes 619kg of African ivory
Vietnamese authorities have seized 619 kilograms of ivory illegally shipped in from Africa in what is reportedly the fifth shipment stopped by customs officials in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)…
Passenger trains collide in Iran, 44 killed – official
ANKARA – Forty-four people have been killed and 103 injured when one Iranian passenger train collided with another at a station about 250 km east of the capital Tehran, state media…
Israel arrests 13 on suspicion of arson over mass wildfires
JERUSALEM – Israeli police arrested 13 people on Friday on suspicion of arson, authorities said, after massive wildfires tore through central and northern Israel, a conflagration that Prime Minister Benjamin…
Death toll in China power plant accident climbs to 74
BEIJING – The death toll in the collapse of a platform under construction at a power plant in eastern China has rise to 74, with two others injured, as China’s…
IBM ‘failed’ on Australia’s census – Turnbull
International Business Machines Corp has failed in its handling of the $10 million IT contract for Australia’s first predominantly online census, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday. IBM…
