Asia Pacific
Thai ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrested, jailed after return from years-long exile
BY JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI AP Thai ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra entered prison to begin serving an 8-year sentence Tuesday, hours after returning to ...Armenia and Azerbaijan clash over plight of 120,000 people in Nagorno-Karabakh facing food crisis
BY EDITH M. LEDERER AP Armenia and Azerbaijan clashed at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council Wednesday over the plight ...Pakistan’s Imran Khan jailed for three years and banned from politics for five years over ...
Police arrested Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Lahore on Saturday after a court sentenced him to three years in prison ...North Korea’s Kim shows off banned missiles to Russian minister
Russia’s defence minister accompanied North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to a defence exhibition that featured the North’s banned ballistic missiles as ...Powerful typhoon Doksuri lashes Philippines, threatens Taiwan, China
At least one person died as powerful typhoon Doksuri lashed the coastline of the northern Philippines with gale-force winds and torrential rain ...China, Taiwan brace for impact as super typhoon Doksuri nears
China urged fishing boats to seek shelter and farmers to speed up their harvest while Taiwan suspended annual military drills as super ...US soldier flees into North Korea in new crisis over the nuclear-armed state
The U.S. military was scrambling to establish the fate of an American soldier who made an unauthorised crossing of the inter-Korean border ...South Korea landslides, floods kill more than 20, over 4,000 evacuated
Twenty-two people have died, 14 were missing and thousands evacuated in South Korea as of Saturday, according to ministry data, as a third ...North Korea fires suspected long range ballistic missile
North Korea conducted a missile test with its longest ever flight time off its east coast on Wednesday, as leaders of South ...Taliban administration orders beauty salons in Afghanistan to close
The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has ordered beauty salons to close within a month, the morality ministry said, in the latest shrinking ...