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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Not only articles but also social media posts are increasingly targeted by the law punishing ‘insults to state officials’, approved by the Georgian Dream-dominated Parliament. According to ...

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 ...

From Italy, exiled film director Fariborz Kamkari comments on what is happening in his country. Khamenei has failed to understand that with 7 October 2023 he found himself in a dead-end street. The Pa ...

Manila (AsiaNews/Agencies) – The new school year began yesterday in the Philippines, marked by yet another educational reform ...

Four Palestinian women from a family in Tamra are among the people killed by Iranian rockets, members of an extended family ...