Zakia Jafri, Who Sought Justice for Victims of Indian Riots, Dies at 86
Zakia Jafri, who turned her personal loss into an uphill campaign for justice after her husband, Ehsan Jafri, was brutally mu...
Pritam Singh, Singapore Opposition Leader, Found Guilty of Lying Under Oath
A Singapore court on Monday found the nation’s opposition leader guilty of lying under oath to Parliament, in a case that has...
South Korean Actress Kim Sae-ron Is Found Dead
South Korean actress Kim Sae-ron, a former child star whose promising career suffered a setback in recent years after a drunk...
Knife Attack in Austria Kills One and Injures Four
The man who Austrian authorities said killed a teenager and injured several other people in a knife attack in Villach, Austri...
East Timor’s Challenges Two Decades After Independence
Three decades ago, he was a scrappy campaigner roaming the world’s corridors of power with a dream to win independence for hi...
15 Hindu Pilgrims Reported Dead in Stampede at New Delhi Rail Station
Fifteen people died in a stampede on Saturday at New Delhi’s main railway station as a crush of pilgrims were trying to make ...
Have You Seen This Pilgrim? Lost in the Throngs of the Kumbh Mela.
Before she waded into the water to take a holy dip among the teeming throngs at the world’s largest religious gathering, Drau...
Cuts to U.S.-Backed Rights Groups Seen as a Win for China
The nonprofit groups track the imprisonment of Chinese political dissidents and the expansion of state censorship. They speak...
Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese Actress and Star of ‘Meteor Garden,’ Dies at 48
Barbie Hsu, a Taiwanese actress, television host and pop star who catapulted to Pan-Asian popularity in 2001 as the star of t...
China Says U.S. Should Lead Trump’s Proposed Arms Controls Push
China said Friday that the United States should take the lead in the reduction of nuclear weapons and military spending, afte...