DHAKA - Bangladeshi police said Tuesday they are investigating whether security forces accidentally shot dead an innocent kitchen worker when they stormed a Dhaka cafe where Islamist attackers were holding people hostage.Relatives raised the alarm after recognising Saiful Islam...
DHAKA - Bangladeshi police hunted on Tuesday for six members of a domestic Islamist group they suspect helped gunmen attack a Dhaka cafe, as officials began questioning families of the militants for clues as to what turned them into...
TOKYO - A former boxer who chopped off the penis of his wife's lover with a pair of garden shears before flushing it down the toilet was jailed in Japan Tuesday.Ikki Kotsugai, 25, carried out the "vicious" attack in...
BEIJING - Flooding in China's Yangtze river basin has left 112 people dead or missing in recent days, media said Tuesday, with more damage feared from a typhoon expected to land within days.Some 16 million people have been affected...
DHAKA - A Bangladeshi politician has spoken of his shock on discovering his son was one of the suspected gunmen who murdered foreign hostages, and said many young men from wealthy, educated families had gone missing.Imtiaz Khan Babul said...
MUMBAI/TOKYO - Foreign companies with nationals working in Bangladesh's garment and building industries have suspended travel to the country and told workers there to stay at home after a deadly attack by Islamist militants on a restaurant in Dhaka...
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- President Tsai Ing-wen, in her capacity as commander-in-chief, extended her deepest regrets and condolences on Monday to the family of a Taiwanese skipper killed by a misfired missile last week.Holding an incense stick, Tsai paid tribute...
DHAKA - Bereaved families of Japanese victims who were killed in a terrorist attack in a restaurant in Dhaka visited a mortuary in the Bangladeshi capital on Monday.A Japanese government plane carrying 18 family members of the eight Japanese...
The new occupant of Malacañang wants to accomplish in his first few days in office something his predecessor failed to deliver in six years.President Duterte will sign within the next two weeks an executive order allowing freedom of information...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Abu Sayyaf group in southern Philippines has threatened to behead a Norweigan hostage within the day unless their US$6.37 million ransom demand is met.The Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist militant group based in Southern Philippines, has...
