Kim Yong Nam, a quintessential North Korean bureaucrat whose lifelong loyalty to the ruling Kim dynasty allowed him to serve ...

PYONGYANG -- Kim Yong-nam, former chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), died of illness at the age of 97 on Monday, ...

A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Afghanistan overnight killed more than 20 people and injured around ...

The Taliban authorities, who say that women's rights are protected by Islamic law, have banned girls and women from schools ...

On Friday, the authoritative medical journal The Lancet issued a report that calculated 3,082,363 life-years have been lost ...

For 30 years, world leaders and diplomats have gathered at United Nations negotiating sessions to try to curb climate change, ...

The Korean Central News Agency said that Kim Yong Nam, former president of the Presidium of North Korea’s rubber-stamp ...

Mazar-i-Sharif: A strong earthquake killed at least 20 people in northern Afghanistan, authorities said Monday, just months ...