Life moves slower in Laos, but the pace is quickening and the 'land of a million elephants' is increasingly in the clutches ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Ordnance from Syria’s 13-year conflict exploded in the coastal city of Latakia, collapsing a building and killing more than a dozen people, the Syrian Civil Defense said Sunday.

The Philippines said Friday it has no plan to invoke its mutual defense treaty with the United States after the Chinese coast guard reportedly rammed, boarded and used machetes and axes to damage two ...