AFP, TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe courted Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, holding out the prospect for a summit as he renewed his call for progress on an elusive World War II peace treaty. The two countries have never officially struck a peace accord more than after 70 years…

AFP, HILLA: Blasts rocked two Sunni mosques in central Iraq Monday, amid fears of renewed sectarian strife following Saudi Arabia's execution of a…

AFP, JERUSALEM: Israeli forces on Monday destroyed the east Jerusalem homes of two Palestinians who killed four Israelis in one of the deadliest days in the recent surge in violence. In the neighbourhood of Jabel Mukaber, the home of Palestinian Alaa Abu Jamal was filled with concrete and sealed off,…

AFP, YANGON: Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi Monday said bringing peace to the country's strife-wracked ethnic regions will be a priority for her government when it takes power. The veteran democracy champion's National League for Democracy (NLD) party swept landmark November polls that look…