Asia Pacific
Obama says Senkaku Islands fall under US-Japan treaty
The disputed Senkaku Islands fall under the scope of the Japan-United States security alliance, President Barack Obama told a news conference Thursday ...Death toll in South Korea ferry disaster crosses 150
The toll in last week\'s South Korean ferry capsize off the country\'s southwestern coast reached 150 Wednesday as divers searched intensively inside ...Militants kill second Somali lawmaker, threaten more attacks
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu Tuesday, the second Somali member of parliament (MP) killed since Monday, media reported.South Korea ferry disaster death toll passes 100
The confirmed death toll from South Korea\'s ferry disaster crossed 100 Tuesday, as dive teams, under growing pressure from bereaved relatives, accelerated ...Japanese lawmakers visit controversial war shrine
A group of Japanese lawmakers has visited a controversial Tokyo war shrine that many see as a symbol of Japan\'s imperialist past. ...Suspected communist guerrillas kill Philippine mayor
Gunmen have shot and killed a town mayor and two of his bodyguards during a brazen attack in the northern Philippines early ...Angry relatives clash with police as Korean ferry death toll rises
South Korea. Angry relatives of hundreds of missing inside a sunken South Korean ferry clashed with police as coastguard divers retrieved 10 ...Japanese military expansion set to anger China
Japan has begun construction work on a military radar station near a string of islands that is at the centre of a ...Air strike kills 13 suspected militants in central Yemen
Thirteen people, including three civilians, were killed on Saturday in a U.S. drone attack on suspected al-Qaeda rebels in the central Yemeni ...South Korea ferry captain arrested as search for survivors continues
The captain of a South Korean ferry carrying 475 passengers that sank on Wednesday -- killing 28 and leaving 268 missing — ...