JAKARTA - Indonesian forces are on high alert for reprisal attacks after the country's most-wanted militant was killed this week, officials said on Wednesday.Police confirmed Santoso, among the first Indonesians to pledge loyalty to Islamic State, was killed in...
MANILA - China has offered its support to the Philippine's controversial drug crackdown pushed by new President Rodrigo Duterte, which has been slammed by rights groups for encouraging extrajudicial killings and vigilante justice."China fully understands that the Philippine government...
Jakarta - Indonesia's most wanted Muslim extremist has been killed in a firefight with security forces, police said Tuesday, ending a lengthy hunt for the Islamic State (IS) group supporter.Santoso, the leader of the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen, was shot...
TAIPEI - A Taiwan tour bus carrying tourists from China crashed into a highway railing en route to the airport on Tuesday (July 19) and burst into flames, killing all 26 on board, Taiwanese authorities said.The bus was carrying...
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani authorities have barred the family of a murdered social media celebrity from legally "forgiving" their son for strangling her, sources said, in a rare stand against the so-called practice of "honour killings".Muhammad Waseem drugged and strangled...
BEIJING - A senior Chinese official on Tuesday brushed off calls for a boycott of the Philippines after an international arbitration court found for Manila in its dispute with Beijing over the South China Sea.China angrily rejected the verdict...
TOKYO - A South Korean man was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday for detonating a homemade pipe bomb at a controversial Tokyo war shrine.During the trial Jeon Chang-Han, 28, reportedly admitted to illegally entering the shrine and...
A Polish photojournalist has slammed a Malaysian photographer for a series of pictures he reportedly took in Fukushima's exclusion zone, calling his account a "fabrication" and "sensationalism".Arkadiusz Podniesinski's accusation comes after a blogger penned a widely-circulated open letter criticising...
A suicide bid by a 19-year-old woman in China has ended with the deaths of six people, including herself.The woman was having dinner and drinks with four colleagues from a local company on Sunday (July 17) in Dunhuang city...
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