Authorities say 25 people have now been confirmed dead in a collapsed apartment building in India’s financial capital of Mumbai. Rescuers working overnight Friday pulled more bodies from the rubble. National Disaster Response Force chief Alok Awasthi said 25 bodies had been found by ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit southwest Pakistan on Saturday in a region already devastated by a quake which left more than 300 dead just days ago. The new tremor struck 96 km northeast of the district of Awaran at a depth of 14 km soon ...

The Maldives’ Election Commission sparked confusion Friday over whether elections suspended by the Supreme Court would go ahead as originally scheduled this weekend. The chief of the independent election body in the troubled Indian Ocean archipelago, Fuad Thaufeeq, told local media late Thursday that ...

President Park Geun-hye apologized to senior citizens Friday over the latest in a series of damaging rollbacks over welfare spending — a key plank of her election campaign. “I am truly regretful and apologetic,” Park told pensioners during a lunch meeting a day after ...

India’s Supreme Court on Friday recognized the right of voters to reject all candidates in polls in what is seen as a key reform ahead of elections next year. A bench headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam asked the National Election Commission to make ...

A leading Malaysian rights activist who faces sedition charges at home has said he was denied a visa to enter Australia, raising suggestions Canberra had buckled to pressure from Kuala Lumpur. Haris Ibrahim, a strident campaigner against the Malaysian government, now headed by Prime ...

An American described as a “leading drug lord” with a network spanning Asia and the United States was sent to the U.S. on a chartered plane following his arrest in Thailand, police said Friday. Joseph Manuel Hunter, 48, was handed to agents from the ...