TOKYO: Japan’s Crown Princess Masako yesterday pledged to do her best despite feeling “insecure” about becoming empress in mere months, in a candid statement released
MELBOURNE: A teenager died early yesterday after a suspected drug overdose at a Sydney dance festival where more than a dozen people were taken to
KHARTOUM: A helicopter crashed yesterday in eastern Sudan, killing at least five local officials who were on board, state media reported. Witnesses said the helicopter
NEW YORK: CNN’s New York offices were evacuated Thursday night after a bomb threat, but no explosive was found and police later gave the all
SORONG (Indonesia): Construction workers massacred at a remote jungle work camp in Papua were legitimate military targets, a rebel group said yesterday, as authorities hunted
MANILA: Maoist rebels in the Philippines declared a ceasefire yesterday for the Christmas and New Year holidays, but the government said it would not be
MANILA: President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday asked legislators to extend martial law across the southern Philippines until the end of 2019 in order to quell continuing
BANGKOK: Thai cops shot dead a smuggler and seized 15 million meth pills at a checkpoint in Thailand’s portion of the “Golden Triangle”, officials said
WAMENA (Indonesia): Indonesian security forces have retrieved the bodies of 16 people in the aftermath of a massacre by suspected separatist rebels in restive Papua
WELLINGTON: The New Zealand Defence Force identified climate change as one of its biggest security challenges yesterday, warning that responding to global warming will increasingly
