The death toll from the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia reached 1200 on Tuesday after 34 bodies were recovered from the debris of a church buried by a mudslide in the city of Palu.
A day after North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un announced his willingness to shut down a key missile launch site, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington is ready to resume negotiations with Pyongyang.
In a “leap forward” N. Korea’s Kim Jong-un has agreed to permanently shut down a key facility for testing and launching missiles if the U.S. takes “reciprocal measures,” said the South’s President Moon Jae-in.
In a landmark verdict, India’s Supreme Court on Thursday decriminalized gay sex, ruling that any discrimination based on sexual orientation is unconstitutional and amounts to a violation of fundamental rights.
Two Reuters journalists, who were detained in Myanmar in December after reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims, have been awarded a jail term of seven years for violating a state secrets act.
In an interview, outgoing U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said that Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have stepped down over the mass killings of Rohingyas by the Burmese army.
In an apparent departure from its commitment to mothball its nuclear and missile programs, N. Korea might be building new ballistic projectiles as claimed by U.S. officials citing images by America’s spy satellites.
Pakistan’s charismatic ex-cricketer Imran Khan’s Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party looks set to win the highest number of seats in the election, which his rivals allege, are rigged by the country’s military establishment.
