Heavy snow, chilling winds and poor visibility hampered the search Sunday for four South Koreans and three Nepalis caught in an avalanche in the popular Annapurna region of the Himalayas, officials said

Relatives of the missing Koreans have arrived in Kathmandu alongside several officials sent by Seoul to…

Fire Kills At Least Eight At Czech Disability Home

At least eight people died and 30 were injured after a fire at a home for…

The world’s shortest man who could walk, as verified by Guinness World Records, died Friday at a hospital in Nepal, his family said

Khagendra Thapa Magar, who measured  67.08 centimetres (2 feet 2.41 inches), died of pneumonia at a…

The flag-draped coffins of the 11 Ukrainians who died in a plane mistakenly shot down by Iran during a spike in tensions with Washington arrived in Kiev on Sunday

President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Oleksiy Goncharuk and other officials attended the solemn ceremony at Kiev’s…

Airstrikes being conducted by the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE as part of the ongoing Operation RATTLESNAKE 2 have continued to yield tremendous results

The latest in the series of achievements by the troops is the destruction of portions of…

The United States has approved the sale of up to 12 F-35 fighter jets — one of the most advanced warplanes ever built — to Singapore for around $2.75 billion, officials said Friday

The city-state last year said it planned to buy four of the jets, with an option…

China denied on Friday that detained Uighur academic Tashpolat Tiyip was secretly tried and sentenced to death, after UN experts demanded answers from Beijing

The foreign ministry said former Xinjiang University president Tiyip’s case was still ongoing and his rights…

At least 15 people died and dozens were injured on Friday when a passenger plane carrying 100 people crashed shortly after takeoff from Kazakhstan’s largest city and slammed into a house, state media reported

The Fokker 100 Bek Air plane disappeared from the radar minutes after it took off from…

Tourists on the popular Philippine holiday island of Boracay were stranded on Thursday after a typhoon swept across on Christmas Day, killing at least 16 people in other parts of the county

Typhoon Phanfone, with wind gusts reaching 200 kilometres (125 miles) an hour, tore roofs off houses…

The police say they are on the trail of a yet-to-be-identified non-commissioned officer of the Nigerian Navy over extra-judicial killing

The naval rating is said to have shot and killed a man over N200 toll fee…