South Korea

South Korean prosecutors are seeking arrest warrants for Captain Lee Joon-Seok and two crew members of the ferry that capsized with hundreds of children on board.

Authorities release the transcript of conversation between harbour and ferry officials – but how much do we really know what happened to South Korean ferry Sewol?

Rescue teams fight rising winds and waves as they search for hundreds of people – many of them children – still missing after a South Korean ferry capsized and sank.

As rescue efforts continue, experts tell Channel 4 News more disasters on this scale are inevitable unless ships get much safer.

Rescue teams resume their search for nearly 280 people – many of them school children – after a ferry capsizes and sinks in South Korea.

An unmanned aerial vehicle, commonly known as a drone, has crashed in South Korea, officials say, raising suspicions that it is a part of North Korea’s burgeoning espionage arsenal.

North and South Korea pepper each other’s territorial waters with artillery shells in the latest show of tensions between the two old enemies.

As a Japanese man is released after 48 years on death row – a new report shows that publicly disclosed executions jumped nearly 15 per cent in 2013.

Ten people die when a building collapses under heavy snow in South Korea. As many as 450 students were believed to have been attending a concert in the building when the roof caved in.

Turkey’s parliament sees violent scenes as members of the ruling and opposition party clash – not for the first time. We look at other debates where the battle of ideas has turned physical.

Defectors’ tales of food shortages and fear expose the official story of life in North Korea – handed out to the few journalists allowed to enter the country – as a carefully constructed lie.

North Korea is labelled “inhumane” after it indefinitely postpones a series of reunions for families divided by the Korean War.

As charities urge G20 leaders to come good on pledges to fix a “broken” global tax system that hurts developing countries, the economic agenda risks being overshadowed by the war in Syria.

A commercial plane with 307 people on board crashes and bursts into flames as it lands at San Francisco, killing two people and injuring more than 180.

Three weeks after their last attempt at dialogue collapsed, South Korea offer to hold talks with North Korea aimed at reopening a jointly run factory park near the armed border.