US authorities have charged the Iraq war vet accused of shooting five people dead and wounding six at a Florida airport with federal crimes that could carry the death penalty.
Hundreds of thousands of protestors returned to the streets of Seoul on Saturday, demanding impeached President Park Geun-hye’s immediate removal and the salvaging of a sunken ferry which left more than 300 dead.
The suspect in the shooting of a US consular official in Mexico's western city of Guadalajara is an American who will be deported back to his country, officials said on Sunday.
President Barack Obama on Sunday admitted that he "underestimated" the impact misinformation and hacking can have on democracies, following an intelligence report on Russian meddling in the US presidential election.
Japan's ambassador to South Korea returned to Tokyo on Monday (Jan 9), reiterating its frustration over a statue of a "comfort woman" which has reignited a diplomatic row over Tokyo's wartime sex slavery.
Philippine police raided an Islamic centre in Manila and briefly detained scores of people as part of heightened security before a major Catholic festival, a spokeswoman said Sunday.
Syrian government aircraft bombed a rebel-held district that is the capital's main water source on Friday as the rival sides traded blame over a cut to mains supplies, a monitor said.
Indonesia is setting up an agency that will tackle fake news after a flood of untrue stories on social media, an official said on Thursday, including claims China was waging biological warfare against the country using contaminated chilli seeds.
Gunfire erupted as protesters clashed with police in Mexico during another day of looting and demonstrations against a gasoline price increase that has infuriated the population.
Philippine authorities said on Thursday they had captured 34 inmates who escaped in the nation’s biggest jailbreak but more than 110 remained on the run in vast farmlands and isolated villages of the nation’s strife-torn south.
Indonesia has not suspended all military and defence cooperation with Australia over a perceived offence to national dignity, contrary to media reports, an Indonesian Cabinet minister said on Thursday in an apparent softening of the country’s stance.
A car bombing blamed on Kurdish militants rocked the Turkish city of Izmir on Thursday, killing at least two people and triggering a deadly shootout as authorities chased the fugitive killer behind the New Year attack in Istanbul.
US spy chiefs insisted they have strong evidence that Russia mounted an unprecedented bid to disrupt the American election, standing firm in the face of Donald Trump's refusal to accept their conclusions.
Golden "Melania" cakes, "White House" slippers, guided tours tracing the rise of Mrs Melania Trump from a model to the future US First Lady.
A high-ranking city official in China burst into a government meeting on Wednesday (Jan 4) and shot the mayor and city party secretary before killing himself, state media reported.
Floods in the north-eastern Malaysian states of Kelantan and Terengganu have now forced almost 23,000 people to leave their homes and more relief centres have been opened, rescue officials said yesterday.
South Korea is committed to deploying an advanced US missile defence system this year despite opposition from China, a minister said on Wednesday, even as opposition lawmakers headed to Beijing with a different message.
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