Thai rail workers began a partial strike on Thursday, joining a protest by thousands of people barricaded inside the prime minister's official compound whose leaders vowed to stay until his government fell.

A surge of violence continued unabated in Pakistan's tribal border region Thursday, with a car bomb blasting a bus filled with Pakistani police and government workers off a bridge and killing eight people aboard.

President Robert Mugabe's regime insisted Thursday it will form a new government alone as an outraged opposition planned to petition mediator Thabo Mbeki to save Zimbabwe's power-sharing talks from an "act of insanity".

Protesting lawyers blocked roads across Pakistan on Thursday to press the government to reinstate judges purged by former president Pervez Musharraf, as militants attacked police in the northwest, killing 11 people.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The Philippine government blamed high world oil prices and inflation for disappointing second-quarter growth, the lowest in three years, but the president's spokesman Friday ruled out any major policy changes. Gross ...

SINGAPORE : The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday that the Russian government had told at least one of its oil companies to prepare for a possible cut in shipments to Europe in days in response to threatened sanctions, citing a single unidentified ...

TOKYO, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Japanese government bond futures dipped on Friday but held near a fourth-month peak hit this week, with fund manager buying of long-term bonds at the end of the month offsetting gains in Tokyo shares. A slew of economic data ...

BANGKOK : Hundreds of Thai riot police climbed into the occupied compound of the prime minister's office on Friday to deliver a court order for the eviction of protesters trying to overthrow the government. Some scuffles broke out, a Reuters witness ...