China rainstorms kill dozens in Gansu province
Some 40 people are now reported to have died in rain and hail storms in north-western China. The official Xinhua news agency also said another 18 people were still missing following the storms on Thursday in Gansu province. The agency said more than 350,000 people had been affected by the storms – with 30,000 of them forced to evacuate homes. Relief More...
Four soldiers in NATO-led force die in Afghanistan
Four soldiers serving with the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan died on Saturday, including two killed in an insurgent attack in the south of the country, the ISAF said in a statement. A third More...
Moderate earthquake shakes Tajikistan-Afghanistan border
DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN – A moderate earthquake shook a number of towns in the Tajikistan and Afghanistan border region on early Sunday morning, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage More...
Afghan leader Karzai to meet Merkel in Berlin
Afghan President Hamid Karzai will hold talks with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on May 16 ahead of a NATO summit in the United States, Merkel’s spokesman said on Friday. Spokesman Steffen More...
China criticizes Philippines on South China Sea protest
China on Friday accused the Philippines of escalating an already tense territorial dispute over the South China Sea following a noisy but peaceful anti-Beijing protest in Manila. About 200 protesters, well below More...
Lawyers for China dissident’s nephew say they face threats
Chinese authorities have confiscated a lawyer’s license and threatened to do the same to another after they volunteered to defend the nephew of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng. The moves come as Chen, More...
Philippine protest over China row
Several hundred protesters waved flags and placards at the Chinese embassy in Manila, calling for China to withdraw its ships from a South China Sea shoal. The Philippines deployed more than 100 police near the More...
Red Cross suspends work in Pakistan after doctor’s murder
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has stopped most of its work in Pakistan following the murder of a staff doctor in Quetta, pending a risk assessment of its operations in the country, the agency More...