The archbishop of the Iranian capital shares his account of the first week of the war launched by Israel with AsiaNews.

He cited two of his predecessors; first, Pope Francis, who said that “War is always a defeat!”, and Pius XII, for whom ...

Some hostile words towards Islam uttered by Hegumen Gavriil seem to have given voice to widespread discontent among the most intransigent Orthodox Christians, who see the ‘Muslim army’ as ...

President Prabowo Subianto announced yesterday that the small atolls will pass from North Sumatra to Aceh, putting an end to ...

With Xi Jinping's offer of mediation from Astana falling on deaf ears, China is looking with great concern at a possible ...

The High Court in Delhi has upheld the dismissal of Lieutenant Samuel Kamalesan, ruling that obedience to orders takes ...

Since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iran has backed Shia militias in the neighbouring ...

On 19 June, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Burmese democratic leader will turn 80 in prison, where she has been held ...

Paetongtarn Shinawatra's phone call to Hun Sen threatens to bring down the Thai government; Bipartisan resolution in the US Congress on Tibet on the 90th birthday of the Dal ...

The sentence was handed down after a swift trial in the south of the country. The defendants were found in possession of 50 kg of heroin and methamphetamine. Vietnam has some of the strictest anti-dru ...

The reference is to the ‘national tragedy’ that mainly affected Chinese-Indonesian women and ended with the resignation of ...

North Korea’s strongman Kim Jong-un is strengthening his regime’s military and economic ties with Moscow, sending more ...