Security forces probably committed war crimes, Myanmar panel admits
An independent commission established by Myanmar's government has concluded there are reasons to believe that security forces committed war crimes in counterinsurgency operations that led more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims ...
Bangladesh issues warrant for newspaper editor over death at rally
A Bangladesh court Thursday issued an arrest warrant for the country's most respected independent newspaper editor after a student was killed at an event organized by a sister publication. Matiur Rahman, ...
U.S. lawmakers propose sanctions over Chinese exit bans on Americans
A bipartisan group of senators has proposed legislation that would impose sanctions on Chinese officials involved in enforcing exit bans on U.S. officials in China. Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Ed ...
ICJ to rule next week on urgent measures in Rohingya genocide case
The U.N.'s top court said Wednesday it will deliver its decision next week on whether emergency measures should be imposed on Myanmar over alleged genocide against its Rohingya Muslims. The ruling comes a month after Myanmar's civilian leader and Nobel peace laureate, Aung San Suu ...
French ex-spy boss blamed for deadly sinking of Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior dies at 95
French ex-secret service boss Pierre Lacoste, synonymous with the deadly sinking of Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior protest ship in New Zealand in 1985, has died at the age of 95, his family said. Lacoste died in a retirement home, his son, Marc, told AFP. "My father was ...
Untouched yet ruined: The toll of South Korea's spy-cam epidemic
The wedding hall was booked and home furnishings all bought but the bride — one of thousands of women to fall victim to an epidemic of high-tech voyeurism in South Korea — is not here. Lee Yu-jung took her own life after a colleague secretly ...
One woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in India in 2018, according to government data released on Thursday, underlining its dismal reputation as one of the worst places in the world to be female. The highly publicized gang rape and murder of ...
Nepal on Wednesday deported 122 Chinese nationals who were arrested on suspicion of operating a large-scale cyber fraud operation in Kathmandu, officials said. Police made the arrests last month in raids on nine houses that were set up like hostels with large kitchens, bunk beds ...
India court orders Jan. 22 hanging of four men guilty in deadly 2012 gang rape aboard moving bus
Four men sentenced to death for the gang rape and murder of a woman on a New Delhi bus in an attack that sent shock waves across the world will be hanged on Jan. 22, an Indian court ruled on Tuesday. The four men were ...
Duterte's deadly drug campaign is a failure, vice president says
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign against illegal drugs has failed to substantially eradicate the menace and ensnare major drug lords and should be reformed to prevent further bloodshed, the country's vice president said Monday. Vice President Leni Robredo, who leads the opposition, also called for ...
Indonesia says China's claims over South China Sea 'have no legal basis'
Indonesia said Wednesday it rejected China's claims over a disputed part of the South China Sea as "having no legal basis," after two days earlier protesting to Beijing over the presence of a Chinese coast guard vessel in its territorial waters. The boat trespassed into ...
U.S. alarmed by China's trial and sentencing of Christian 'house' church pastor
The United States expressed alarm on Tuesday at the trial and sentencing to a nine-year prison term of the pastor of one of China's best-known unregistered "house" churches. Wang Yi, pastor of the Early Rain Covenant Church in China's southwestern city of Chengdu, was among ...
