MALE, Feb 7 (AP/UNB) — The president of the island nation of Maldives, who became the country's first democratically elected leader in three decades, resigned Tuesday following weeks of sometimes violent public prot...

LONDON, Feb 7 (AsiaNet/UNB) - February 6 marks the formal launch of The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, on the 60th anniversary of the accession of the Queen to the throne.The establishment of the Trust was ori...

TOKYO, Feb 07 (AP/UNB) - The United States and Japan, hoping to break a stalemate over the U.S. military presence on Okinawa, are discussing a plan to transfer nearly 5,000 troops to Guam despite their failure to repl...

BEIRUT, Feb 07 (AP/UNB) - The U.S. has closed its embassy in Syria and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus in a new Western push to get President Bashar Assad to leave power and halt the murderous grind in Syr...

BEIJING, Feb 07 (AP/UNB) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is visiting China to discuss oil sales and other economic ties.Harper is due to arrive Tuesday and will meet with President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiab...

CAIRO, Feb 07 (AP/UNB) - Egypt's military leader has told electoral officials to speed up preparations for presidential elections after a new eruption of street protests demanding that the ruling generals move more qu...

ISLAMABAD, Feb 07 (AP/UNB) - A rescue official says the death toll from a factory that collapsed in eastern Pakistan has risen to 18.The factory, which manufactured medicine, caved in Monday in the city of Lahore afte...

MANILA, Philippines, Feb 07 (AP/UNB) - Rescuers digging for survivors among dozens of people buried by earthquake-triggered landslides on a central Philippine island have found only bodies. The death toll climbed to 1...

WASHINGTON, Feb 07 (AP/UNB) - A bill to speed the update the U.S. air traffic control system from radar to one based on GPS technology and to open U.S. skies to unmanned drone flights within four years received final ...

BANGKOK, Feb 07 (AP/UNB) - Asian stock markets fell Tuesday as talks dragged on to resolve a massive debt mess in Greece before it explodes into a wider financial crisis.Benchmark oil hovered below $97 per barrel whil...