The suicide attacker detonated his explosives-laden vest in the main market of the volatile district of Almar, killing at least 19 people, according to Faryab police chief Subhan Quli Ebrahimi and the United Nations.
The Philippines is set to develop a Defence Economic Zone that will soon house the best international weapons manufacturers, with profits going straight back into the armed forces’ modernisation fund.
At least eight Afghan soldiers were killed in a “friendly fire” incident on Monday when NATO forces mistakenly launched an air strike on their army outpost in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said.
Support for the government of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has plunged to to 35 per cent, an all-time low after it pushed unpopular defence bills through parliament despite public anger, according to a poll published in the Mainichi Shimbun.
A leader of student protests in Myanmar in 1988 that grew into a nationwide pro-democracy movement will run in a general election in November for opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, a party spokesman said on Sunday.
Japan, the world’s sixth biggest greenhouse gas polluter, has pledged to cut emissions 26 per cent from 2013 levels by 2030, a target observers judged inadequate to avert calamitous global warming.
A year on from the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, families are still dealing with the loss of their loved ones and a lack of answers surrounding the perpetrators of the tragedy.
Dozens of politicians held signs protesting against what they said was the “forced” passage of legislation that will bolster the role of Japan’s military, in a way they say is anathema to the country’s pacifist constitution.
China will begin the trial on July 28 of a Korean-American missionary arrested last year over a non-profit school he ran near the sensitive border with North Korea, his lawyer said, in a case that sparked outcry from international Christian groups.
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have killed dozens of people and burned down homes in two villages in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, police and a security source said on Monday.