Category: Asia Pacific

(CNN) -- More than 40 people are missing after a boat carrying 97 Indonesians sank in waters off Malaysia's west coast, Indonesian authorities said. The vessel, reportedly carrying undocumented migrant...

Israel's prime minister says a terror group abducted three teens who disappeared from the West Bank and are the objects of an intense search. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani military jets pounded militant hideouts in the northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan early Sunday morning, officials said, killing as many as 100 militants in the second...

As insurgents took more territory in Iraq on Saturday, Secretary of State John Kerry stressed to allies and countries in the Gulf region the importance of coming to Iraq's aid...

Just a week after the gang rape and murder of two teenagers, an Indian politician has said rape is “sometimes it’s right, sometimes it’s wrong.” Babulal Gaur said on Thursday...

North Korea detained a U.S. tourist, the third American held in the country, the nation's official Korean Central News Agency said Friday.   "American citizen Jeffrey Edward Fowle entered the...

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the era of negotiation of Tehran’s nuclear program has ended and that those who wanted to deal with America — which he said...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indian voters in the world's biggest democracy are wrapping up a mammoth national election with the final day of polling in three states.  ...

(CNN) -- Violence erupted across Iraq on Saturday, with dozens of killings reported in shellings, bombings and shootings, authorities said. Most of the deaths occurred in Anbar province, the Sunni...

(CNN) -- Two al Qaeda gunmen tried to kidnap two U.S. Embassy employees in Yemen last month but were shot and killed by one of the Americans, a Yemeni government...