February 15, 2017 Trump's secretary of state on the spot on 1st foreign trip U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has his work cut out for him.
February 15, 2017 Pentagon chief Mattis makes clear that US committed to NATO U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday made clear that the United States was committed to NATO while also reinforcing the Trump administration's demand that allies pay their fair share.
February 15, 2017 Kazakhstan postpones Syria talks by a day Kazakhstan says it has postponed talks aimed at firming up a Syrian cease-fire by one day.
February 15, 2017 Memorial ceremony marks fall of Singapore to Japanese troops It was 75 years ago that Singapore, the island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula that had been a key strategic outpost of Britain's colonial empire, fell to invading Japanese troops.
February 15, 2017 Clues scarce after half brother of N. Korean leader killed News of the apparent assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half brother rippled across Asia on Wednesday as Malaysian investigators scoured airport surveillance video for clues about two female suspects and rival South Korea offered up a single, shaky motive: paranoia.
February 15, 2017 World's diplomats seeking reassurance from US at G20 meeting Foreign ministers from most of the world's leading powers are heading to a diplomatic summit of the Group of 20 industrialized and emerging economies in Germany, with all eyes on the new U.S. Secretary of State for clues about the direction Washington will take over the next four years.
February 15, 2017 Pakistan mourns 13 killed in Lahore suicide bombing Pakistani police say businesses are closed across much of the Punjab province in mourning for 13 people killed in a suicide bombing claimed by a breakaway Taliban faction.
February 15, 2017 Residents of Chinese city protest against aluminum plant Residents of a Chinese oil town near the Russian border have protested against a planned aluminum plant over pollution fears.
February 15, 2017 Did a South Korean news report doom Kim Jong Un's brother? Intelligence officials believe North Korean agents assassinated leader Kim Jong Un's exiled half brother, but if the whodunit seems settled, a very big question still looms: Why now? Kim Jong Nam, reportedly killed by two female agents in a cloak-and-dagger operation in a Malaysian airport, had long been an embarrassment to North Korea's government — humiliated during a failed attempt to sneak into Japan to visit Disneyland and outspoken in opposing the rise to power of his brother, who had his uncle executed after taking over.
February 15, 2017 Hits and misses: Notable NKorean assassinations or attempts The killing of the North Korean leader's outcast half brother adds to a long list of high-profile assassinations or attempts in which the country is suspected of targeting estranged relatives of the Kim clan, turncoats and South Korean public figures.
