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YEMEN’S parliament will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday after President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi offered to resign over a deadly standoff with Shiite militia controlling the capital, official media said. Hadi, a

THAILAND’S junta-stacked parliament voted Friday to impeach former premier Yingluck Shinawatra, hours after prosecutors announced plans to indict her for corruption in a double blow that risks reigniting the country’s bitter divisions.

THE deadline set by Islamist militants threatening to kill two Japanese men unless they were given $200 million passed Friday, after one captive’s mother made a desperate plea to save her son’s

THE deputy chief of Indonesia’s most powerful anti-corruption body was arrested Friday over allegations he interfered in a legal case, police said, sparking protests outside the agency headquarters. The shock arrest of

A FEMALE bomber blew herself up, killing herself and a policeman, outside a court in the eastern Indian state of Bihar on Friday, police said. “I can confirm that two people have

PRO-RUSSIAN rebels cemented their hold Friday on a long-disputed airport ceded by Ukrainian troops during an upsurge in clashes that killed nearly 50 people and punctured Europe’s latest push for peace in

TAIWANESE prosecutors on Friday indicted convicted former president Chen Shui-bian on an additional charge of money laundering, less than three weeks after he was freed from jail on a medical parole. Chen,

THE United States has accepted that the former Guantanamo inmate, Australian citizen David Hicks, is innocent, his lawyer says. Lawyer Stephen Kenny told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that he expected Hicks’s

DOCTORS should be prevented from performing plastic surgery outside their speciality, according to the Royal College of Surgeons. It told the BBC the current rules allowed “GPs to do nose jobs” and

FORMER Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra will face a criminal charge over a controversial rice subsidy scheme, the attorney general’s office says. The news came as the legislature prepared to vote on whether