The European Union's top court kept Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on the EU terrorism blacklist on Wednesday and removed Sri Lankan separatist rebels,...
The Australian foreign minister on Tuesday rejected the United Nations refugee agency's allegation that her government reneged on a deal to resettle some...
Australia was disappointed that hundreds of its rejected refugees would not begin resettling in the United States this month under a deal that predates...
Sri Lanka’s navy has rescued an elephant that got into difficulties after being washed out to sea, a spokesman said Wednesday, calling it a “miraculous escape.”
China has deployed troops to its first overseas naval base in Djibouti, a major step forward for the country's expansion of its military presence abroad
For almost a decade, Pakistan has lacked the energy it needs, with producers and consumers across the country facing power outages for up to 12 hours per day.
An appeals court in the United Arab Emirates acquitted a maid from the Philippines of the murder of her employer and scrapped her death sentence, the...
At least 147 people were killed in Bangladesh and neighboring regions of northeast India after heavy rains triggered a series of landslides and flooded swaths...
Police in Sri Lanka have arrested a key figure from an extremist Buddhist organization blamed for a series of hate crimes against Muslims that has drawn...
From a Peruvian trout farm manager to the head of an Indonesian meatball company, a list of 500 women entrepreneurs in emerging markets was launched Thursday...
Sri Lanka's military recorded its biggest peacetime deployment for search and rescue operations after monsoon rains triggered landslides and floods that...
Bangladesh's navy was searching for 81 fishermen still missing on Thursday after more than 63 were rescued from the Bay of Bengal following a devastating...
International aid arrived into Sri Lanka Wednesday as the death toll from the island's worst floods and landslides in well over a decade climbed to 202
Left drenched and near destitute by a cyclone that hit Bangladesh a day earlier, thousands of Rohingya refugees hunkered down in the ruins of their camps...
Sri Lanka appealed for volunteers Tuesday to help with a massive recovery operation in the wake of devastating flooding that left 183 dead and tens of...
The United Nations named a trio of independent experts Tuesday to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by Myanmar security forces...
A cyclone grew in strength as it churned north towards Bangladesh Monday after heavy rain in rural Sri Lanka and thunderstorms in eastern India killed almost...
Helicopters searched for people marooned four days after rain-triggered floods and mudslides inundated Sri Lankan neighborhoods and killed at least 164 people
Sri Lankan rescuers pulled out more bodies under enormous mudslides on Sunday as the death toll climbed to 146 with 112 others missing.
Sri Lanka has appealed for outside help as the death toll from floods and mudslides Saturday rose to 100 with 99 others missing