Reuters

Cold pills contain pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient of meth, a highly addictive drug whose ever-soaring popularity is rattling governments across Asia.

Two faculty members were abducted at gunpoint from a road near the university in Kabul Sunday evening.

A successful deal would mark BP’s first significant exit from a business in China.

Four human rights lawyers and activists, including Zhou Shifeng, Gou Hongguo, Hu Shigen and Zhai Yanmin were convicted of subversion last week.

A 1998 peace deal largely ended three decades of bloodshed but pockets of violence remain.

Canine units were searching for the missing, but the number of unaccounted for residents was unclear.

Public broadcaster NHK reported last month that Akihito, who has had heart surgery and been treated for prostate cancer, wanted to step down in a few years.

The U.S. circulated a draft resolution to the U.N. that would approve a regional protection force to secure Juba and protect the airport and other key facilities.

International Paralympic Committee President Philip Craven said Russia’s Paralympians were part of a broken system overseen by the Russian government.

Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern had suggested ending Turkey's EU membership talks altogether because of the country's democratic and economic deficits.

Photographs that came to light on Saturday show an American portable rocket launcher, radio, grenades and other gear, as well as the identification card of a U.S. Army soldier.

South Korea's presidential office urged Beijing to play a stronger role against North Korea's provocations on the Korean peninsula.

Japan filed a protest to Beijing after discovering the equipment in a gas exploration platform close to disputed waters in the East China Sea.

Pro-government media outlets denied the development while the U.S. State Department said the situation was "too fluid" to comment on.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a freedom of information lawsuit last year, asking the Obama administration to make its policy on drone strikes abroad public.

Virginia Thrasher won the first gold medal of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Saturday in the women's 10m air rifle event.

Responding to the execution of 20 Sunni Kurds, a prominent Sunni cleric in Iran said the action did not consider "the sensitive situation in our region."

The African National Congress, which Nelson Mandela led, is having its worst electoral performance since the end of apartheid in 1994.

About 230 Chinese fishing vessels and six coastguard ships, of which three appeared to be armed, sailed close to disputed islets in the East China Sea.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been pursuing an agreement with Russia on military cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria.

U.S. employment increased more than expected in July and wages picked up, bolstering expectations of an acceleration in economic growth and raising the probability of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike this year.

Police made several arrests as protesters caused traffic congestion at the busiest airport in Europe.

Multi-ethnic Singapore has an image as one of the safest countries in the world.

The 21-member committee voted on Thursday to put suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on trial for breaking budget laws.

The group called General Foundation for Prisoners' Affairs has demanded release of prisoners in exchange for the bodies of five people shot down in a Russian helicopter.

A white lioness named Cleopatra gave birth to three cute cubs in Tbilisi, Georgia.

The central bank also announced an expansion of its quantitative easing policy to ease Brexit's impact.

Ties between the two countries have been frayed over mutual displeasure at each other's approach to tackling Islamist groups.

Officials from the two countries wrapped up three days of discussions in Washington over a new 10-year defense pact.