About 2.5 million Australians are living below the poverty line, according to a Salvation Army report. The charity surveyed 2,400 people between the ages of 25 and 59. It found on average, people had just ...

An Afghan official says that 19 policemen and seven soldiers have been killed by Taliban militants who have surrounded a police compound in an ongoing siege. Napas Khan, the police chief in the Naw Zad ...

The U.N. refugee agency is estimating that over 3,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants — or even more — could still be adrift in the Andaman Sea. The exact numbers are not known, but the U.N. ...

Pakistan’s military says its jets have carried out airstrikes against five militant hideouts in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, killing 13 militants. In a statement, the military said the strikes were carried out Wednesday near ...

At least 47 people have been killed and tens of others wounded after unidentified armed men launched an attack on a bus carrying Shia Muslim pilgrims in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh. At least 47 ...

Four boats carrying some 1,400 Rohingya migrants have been rescued off the coasts of Indonesia and Malaysia, officials said, a day after nearly 600 others arrived in a wooden vessel off Indonesia’s Aceh. All the ...

A group of US researchers say Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are facing a grave humanitarian situation, and have warned of a possible genocide there. Staff from Washington’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide visited Myanmar ...

Pakistani military fighter jets have pounded militant positions in Pakistan’s rugged northwestern tribal region close to the border with Afghanistan, killing at least 44 militants. According to a statement released by the Pakistani Army, the ...

Gunmen on a motorcycle killed a prominent women’s rights activist in Pakistan just hours after she held a forum on the country’s restive Baluchistan region, home to a long-running insurgency, police said Saturday. While investigators ...