North Korea on Tuesday denounced Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as an "Asian Hitler" intent on amassing military power under the guise of ensuring regional stability.
The Philippine military attacked a Muslim renegade faction Monday, two days after the country's main Muslim rebel group successfully ended negotiations to end a decades-long insurgency that has killed tens of thousands.
There's no smoke without ire: a ban on water pipes in restaurants and cafes has caused uproar in Jordan where $1 billion worth of tobacco goes up in smoke every year.
Japanese education chiefs will instruct schools to teach children that islands at the centre of disputes with China and South Korea belong unequivocally to Tokyo, the government said Tuesday.
South Korea called in the Japanese ambassador to Seoul on Tuesday to lodge a formal protest over school teaching manual revisions bolstering Tokyo's claim to a set of disputed tiny islets.
TEHRAN, YJC. After the Marivanese teacher shaved his head bald as a show of empathy with his student who lost his hair due to illness, the whole class acted in kind. Marivan is a city in Iran's Kurdistan province.
TEHRAN, YJC. A Turkmen, Yaghoub learned riding early from his father and uncle. Now, although very young, he is a horse racing champion in his area. Inhabiting parts of north-west Iran and nearby lands over the border, the Turkmen are well-known for horse rearing and riding skills.
A missing Malaysian airliner was apparently deliberately diverted and flown for hours after vanishing from radar, Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday, in an announcement that stopped short of confirming a hijack but took the "excruciating" jet drama into uncharted new territory.
Tehran, YJC. Iranian official says talks are underway with Armenia to start a joint project on the Aras River with alterations proposed by the Iranian side.
Australia's prime minister Monday announced an expanded search across a huge swathe of seabed where Flight MH370 might have crashed seven weeks ago, admitting it is now "highly unlikely" that any surface wreckage will be found.
The effort to find missing flight MH370 is at a "very critical juncture", Malaysia's transport minister said Saturday as authorities mull whether to reassess a challenging search of the Indian Ocean seabed that has so far found nothing.
U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday the Senkaku Islands fall under the Japan-U.S. security treaty in a show of U.S. commitment to defending the Japanese-administered islands against any attempt by China to seize them by force.
