A small oil tanker from the United Arab Emirates traveling through the Strait of Hormuz entered Iranian waters and turned off its tracker three days ago, leading the U.S. to suspect Iran seized the vessel amid heightened tensions in the region. Iranian state media quoted its Foreign...

Hong Kong protesters are set to rally for a second day on Sunday in an area popular with mainland Chinese shoppers as anger over the government’s handling of an extradition bill revives other grievances, such as an influx of cross-border visitors. On Saturday, a largely peaceful...

Protests continued in at least three major cities of Myanmar, demanding justice for a three-year old girl, sexually assaulted in a private nursery school in the capital Nay Pyi Taw on May 16.    The incident has sparked a national outrage, with social media users launching an...

U.S. regulators have approved a $5 billion penalty to be levied on Facebook to settle a probe into the social network's privacy and data protection lapses, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The newspaper said the Federal Trade Commission approved the settlement in a 3-2 vote,...