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Former South Korean army Gen. Paik Sun-yup salutes during a ceremony at the New Mexico Range in Paju, South Korea on Aug. 29, 2013. (AP)World
Paik Sun-yup, major South Korean war hero, dies at 99

The South Korean army announced his death on Saturday, but did not immediately release the cause of death

11 July 2020 11:35 AM IST

This handout photo taken and released on July 10, 2020 by Singapores Ministry of Communications and Information shows the city-states Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (C) waving as he cast his vote at Alexandra Primary School during the general election in Singapore.(AFP)World
Singapore PM Lee returns to power with a clear mandate

The ruling party, in power since independence in 1965, secured 61.24 per cent of the total votes cast in the election

11 July 2020 10:00 AM IST

US President Donald Trump (keft) shakes hands with North Koreas leader Kim Jong Un following a meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi. (AFP)World
North Korea doesn’t have to ‘gift’ high profile meetings to...

Another Kim-Trump summit is unlikely to happen, Kim Yo Jong says, but also leaves hint that ‘a surprise thing may...

10 July 2020 11:39 AM IST

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon speaks during a press conference at Seoul City Hall in Seoul, South Korea Wednesday, July 8, 2020. (AP)World
Seoul mayor-'s death a suicide after #MeToo allegations

He was reported missing by his daughter on Thursday, who said he had been unreachable after leaving a message that...

10 July 2020 8:48 AM IST

In this June 5, 2014, file photo, Park Won-soon, then candidate for Seoul city mayor of the main opposition party New Politics Alliance for Democracy celebrates his victory in the Seoul mayoral election at his office in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)World
Seoul mayor missing, phone turned off

The mayor has left a verbal message for his daughter, described as sounding like a will, police say

9 July 2020 4:57 PM IST

Tourists are seen at Kuta beach, Bali, Indonesia on Thursday, July 9, 2020. (AP)World
Bali island reopens after 3 months of virus lockdown

The local government had granted automatic visa extensions to more than 7,000 tourists who got stranded in the island...

9 July 2020 3:58 PM IST

Workers in protective suits prepare a coffin containing the body of someone who presumably died of COVID-19 for burial at a cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP)World
Corpses kidnapped in Indonesia as traditions clash with virus protocol

Corpse handlers say their job profile itself has changed, with longer hours and some even required to do rituals...

9 July 2020 1:09 PM IST

President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella resort North Korea on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, repeated it has no immediate intent to resume dialogue with the United States hours before U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun was to arrive in South Korea for discussions on the stalled nuclear diplomacy. (AP Photo)World
North Korea rejects talks ahead of US envoy-'s arrival in Seoul

North Korea ridiculed South-'s “nonsensical” calls for revived negotiations between US and Pyongyang when it lost...

7 July 2020 3:27 PM IST

A nuclear accord with the US signed in 2015 by the Obama administration, under which Iran would stop all nuclear activity, was unilaterally abandoned by the Trump administration in 2018. Since September 2019, Iran began enriching uranium at the Natanz facility, where the accident took place on Thursday. This photo released Nov. 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, shows centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. (Photo | AP)World
Iran’s nuclear activity takes a major hit due to accident at site

The accident at a warehouse could slow the production of centrifuges used to enrich uranium.

6 July 2020 6:30 PM IST

A drone display showing messages of support for the country amid the covid-19 pandemic, above the Han river in central Seoul. (AFP)World
Hundreds of drones light up Seoul sky with virus messages

The show began with reminding people of precautionary measures, including wearing masks, washing hands and observing...

6 July 2020 1:24 PM IST

A car leans against a building following a heavy rain in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Monday, July 6, 2020. (AP)World
Dozens feared dead in Japan floods

At least 36 people are feared dead after record rains lashed areas of western Japan in the early hours of Saturday

6 July 2020 8:48 AM IST

A man looks at books in a public library in Hong Kong on July 4, 2020. - Books written by prominent Hong Kong democracy activists have started to disappear from the citys libraries, online records show, days after Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the finance hub.The new security law and the removal of books raises questions of whether academic freedom still exists. (Photo | AFP)World
Books on democracy removed from Hong Kong libraries

The national security law is fundamentally a tool to incriminate speech, wrote author and activist Joshua Wong on...

4 July 2020 8:26 PM IST

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