Geography of Asia

Police have found more than 50 bodies, including those of six foreigners, in Nepal's popular Langtang trekking region following last weekend's devastating earthquake, a senior local official said May 3.

Another 100 foreign tourists are still feared to be missing in Langtang in the wake of the 7.8-magnitude-quake that struck on April 25 and claimed more than 7,000 lives.

Tighter security at Bulgaria's and Greece's land borders with Turkey has allegedly forced more Europe-bound migrants to try "the world's deadliest sea crossing" to arrive in Italy via the Mediterranean, according to the UN refugee agency.

BELGRADE - The Tourism Organization of Serbia (TOS) will for the first time present the country's tourism potentials at the Arabian Travel Market, an international tourism trade fair, which will be held in Dubai on May 4-7.

"What's emerging is what we need,which is a comprehensive plan, going after the criminal gangs, going after the traffickers, going after the owners of the boats...and stabilising the countries from which these people are coming." And when you have finished "stabilising" Syria, Somalia and Libya, overthrowing the Eritrean dictatorship, and ending poverty in West Africa, could you drop by and fix

Weeks after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an claimed that Obamacare was inspired by Turkey, the country?s Education Ministry has claimed that a Japanese minister looked at Ankara?s education system with ?envy? and used it as a model.

EU energy boss Maros Sefcovic said late on April 30 that Europe could import natural gas from ex-Soviet Turkmenistan via Iran as Brussels ramps up efforts to break its dependence on Russian-sourced energy.

Turkey remained ?not free? in terms of its press freedom, increasing its overall negative-trending score from 62 to 65 compared to the previous year, according to Freedom House?s ?2015 Freedom of the Press? report.

Turkey has returned to the European Parliament an April 15 motion describing the mass killing of Ottoman Armenians during World War I as genocide, as a senior EU official warned Ankara about the consequences of its reaction to statements made by countries and organizations labeling the mass killings genocide. 

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Serbia Juma Rashed Saif Zayed Al Dhaheri discussed cooperation between the two countries on Thursday.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu highlighted his party's economy-focused election promises during a meeting in Turkey's western province of Afyon, where he also accused the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of making the rich even richer over nearly 13 years of rule.