It was a historic first as Donald Trump stepped over a small concrete block onto North Korean soil. But the event was shrouded in uncertainty...

At the G-20 summit in Osaka on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitched for strong measures to deal with fugitive economic offenders and also highlighted...

Dalai Lama in an interview with BBC News said that if his successor is female, she should be attractive. This statement has drawn severe criticism...

Kitty Wong and Adolf Lim are tightening the screws on their future in Taiwan as they make the final touches to a hostel in the...

China and the United States will face a long road before they can reach a deal to end their bitter trade war, with more fights...

At least 15 people were killed, including three children, when a compound wall near a construction site fell on temporary huts of labourers in the...

When Matthew Scott was transferred to China to work as an engineer at Microsoft in 2006, he never thought there would be an opportunity to...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday left for home after concluding his three-day visit to Japan where he attended the G20 Summit and met with...

An order for mobile phone users in Thailand's restive south to submit a photo of themselves for facial recognition purposes is causing uproar from opponents...

Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un have exchanged a total of 12 letters since the beginning of last year, South Korea's Unification Minster said, with...

Indonesia's Constitutional Court will rule on Thursday (Jun 27) on an opposition challenge to the official presidential election result after allegations the vote won by...

The three men were so busy staging a fake car crash they failed to notice the very people they were trying to block: Foreign journalists...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Sri Lanka is a proof that the country is safe, said the island nation Tourism Minister John Amaratunga."Prime Minister...

A speeding train collided with an army truck in Sri Lanka's Kilinochchi district on Tuesday, killing at least five soldiers and injuring two others.The accident...

Thousands of Palestinians demonstrated on Tuesday throughout the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip against the launch of the US administration's Middle East peace...

A Thai soccer team trapped in a cave last year for 17 days returned there on Monday to perform Buddhist rituals honoring a former navy...

More than 100 people blocked a Hong Kong government building on Monday in protest against proposed legislation allowing extraditions to mainland China that they want...

As the United States piles sanction after sanction on Iran, it’s the average person who feels it the most.From a subway performer’s battered leather hat...

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi met Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), here on Monday and briefed him on...

A passenger train derailed in Bangladesh on Monday, killing at least five people and injuring more than 100, and there could be more casualties inside...

At least four policemen were killed and another was injured in a Taliban attack on Saturday night in Herat province of Afghanistan, a police official...

Pakistan's Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said that the country is using all available sources to eliminate terrorism from its soil and is...

The retrieval of bodies from a building collapse in Cambodia continued Monday (Jun 24), as the death toll rose to 24 with no further survivors...

Viral artwork pummelling city leaders, clever word plays and Cantonese cursing that would make a sailor blush - Hong Kongers have displayed a characteristically riotous...

The death toll in the collapse of a Chinese-owned building under construction at a Cambodian resort rose to 17 overnight, officials said on Sunday (Jun...

President Donald Trump sent North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a letter, a government-controlled news agency reported Sunday.Kim “said with satisfaction that the letter is...

Claiming that there was a serious threat to the life of jailed former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif due to lack of medical care, his...

Singapore welcomes a declaration by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to combat marine debris, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Saturday (Jun...

Thousands of protestors here in the wee hours of Saturday morning ended their 15-hour siege of the city's police headquarters after putting up demonstrations demanding...

Airlines rerouted flights on Friday to avoid airspace near the Strait of Hormuz after Iran shot down a US military surveillance drone there and American...

Pakistan has failed to complete its action plan on terror financing, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said on Friday, warning Islamabad to meet its...

Sri Lanka’s attorney general on Thursday directed the acting police chief to initiate a criminal investigation against nine senior police officers for their “lapses” to...

China’s President Xi Jinping has arrived in North Korea, Chinese state media said on Thursday. Xi will be in North Korea for two days, becoming...

Regime attacks killed 17 civilians and 11 combatants in Syria's jihadist-run northwest on Wednesday, a war monitor said, the latest violence to rattle a region...

Pakistan’s chief justice Asif Saeed Khosa Wednesday lamented that Pakistanis were only hearing “depressing” news these days -- on the state of the economy, politics...

A hugely popular but brutal online game was slapped with a fatwa Wednesday by an Indonesian Muslim group who say it insults Islam and makes...

Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday that close cooperation between Pakistan and China was a factor of peace and stability in the region. He...

A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Japan, sparking a tsunami advisory that was later lifted with no reports Wednesday of major damage and only a handful...

In many Chinese cities, government restrictions have cooled formerly feverish property markets, but in the southwestern city of Chongqing, construction is booming and sales soaring...

Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to North Korea this week, state media announced Monday, as U.S. talks with North Korea on...

Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)-related projects will turn the disputed territory of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) into Pakistan's "economic engine," claimed a former diplomat of the...

At first, in her desperate calls home to her mother in Pakistan, Natasha Masih couldn’t bring herself to say what they were doing to her.All...

Iran announced on Monday it would breach uranium enrichment limits in 10 days in a move that drew an accusation of “nuclear blackmail” from Washington,...

Tourists snap selfies by a bronze statue of the diver who died trying to save the 'Wild Boars' football team from a flooded cave, while...

Xi Jinping will visit North Korea this week, state media said on Monday (Jun 17), marking the first visit there by a Chinese president in...

Yemen’s Houthi movement launched fresh drone attacks targeting Jizan and Abha airports in southern Saudi Arabia, the group’s Al-Masirah TV said on Saturday, adding the...

At least 1sy2 people were killed after terror groups attacked a village in the Syrian province of Aleppo, through mortar shelling."The armed groups deployed in...

Thousands of protestors took to streets on Sunday demanding the permanent scrapping of the controversial bill that threatens to send criminal suspects to mainland China...

Foreign "meddling" in the affairs of Hong Kong is hypocritical and "ill-intentioned", and Beijing will continue to back embattled Chief Executive Carrie Lam despite calls...

Images of riot police battling protesters in Hong Kong last week have reverberated in nearby Taiwan, where many recoil at what they fear could be...

Chinese President Xi Jinping celebrated his 66th birthday on Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who Xi considers a close friend and who gave Xi...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon on the sidelines of the fifth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Saturday held bilateral talks with his Iranian counterpart and Vietnam's vice president here and discussed issues of mutual interest and...

Beijing confirmed on Saturday (Jun 15) that a Chinese vessel hit a Philippine fishing boat in a collision which has increased tensions in the disputed...

The United Arab Emirates said Friday that twin attacks on tankers in the Sea of Oman just weeks after four ships were damaged off the...

Pakistan's top anti-graft body has arrested sister of former president Asif Ali Zardari in a case related to money laundering through fake bank accounts, a...

Images of riot police battling protesters in Hong Kong this week have reverberated in nearby Taiwan where many recoil at what they fear could be...

Around 65 ethnic Rohingya Muslim refugees were found stranded in southern Thailand, Thai officials said on Wednesday.An official told Dawn that the refugees, including 28...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe traveled to Tehran on Wednesday to warn that an “accidental conflict” could be sparked amid heightened tensions between Iran and the...

The giant panda enclosure at Kuala Lumpur’s Zoo Negara provided visitors a cooling respite from the hot and humid weather.On Tuesday morning (Jun 11), the...

Violent clashes broke out in Hong Kong on Wednesday as police tried to stop protesters storming the city’s parliament, while tens of thousands of people...

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Wednesday (Jun 12) described the spreading of sex videos allegedly linked to a minister as politically motivated.He said that...

Flooding caused by torrential rains has killed at least 19 people in southern China, the official Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.In the Guangxi region,...

Sri Lanka’s Parliament on Tuesday defied President Maithripala Sirisena and resumed investigations into security lapses surrounding the Easter suicide bombings that killed 258 people, officials...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, on Tuesday, announced that he will form a high-powered commission to investigate graft in the last one decade, at a...

Indian authorities are preparing to evacuate 300,000 people along the western coast as a severe cyclone is expected to make landfall on Thursday (Jun 13)...

Prices of mangoes in the Philippines have plummeted as the country faces an oversupply of the fruit of about 2 million kg.The bumper harvest, caused...

Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un who was killed in Malaysia in 2017, had been an informant for the...

As its nuclear deal with world powers unravels amid heightened tensions with the US, Iran will see a week of high-stakes diplomacy capped by the...

A woman passenger, aboard a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight, sparked panic after she mistakenly opened the emergency exit door of the aircraft thinking it...

A fifty-year-old Indian national was stabbed to death and another injured when a quarrel broke out among tenants living in an apartment in Israel's Tel...

Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam signaled Monday that her government will go ahead with proposed amendments to its extradition laws after a massive protest against...

Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe criticized the United States on Sunday for its support for self-ruled Taiwan and for naval operations in the disputed South...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday asserted that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism."No one ever blamed Hinduism for Tamil Tigers' bombings or...

China on Sunday (Jun 2) defended the bloody Tiananmen crackdown on student protesters in a rare public acknowledgement of the event, days before its 30th...

Washington's escalating trade war with Beijing has not "made America great again" and has instead damaged the American economy, China said Sunday, stressing that while...

Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe and acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan held talks on Friday (May 31) at an Asia security summit in Singapore,...

The wife of former Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono died on Saturday morning (Jun 1) at the National University Hospital, Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

An earthquake measuring 6.1 magnitudes on Richter scale rocked Mindanao, the Philippines on Friday.The quake hit at the depth of 76 km at around 6:12...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Saturday warned that "terrorist" attacks in the region could imperil global oil supplies."We confirm that terrorist actions not only target...

Malaysia will continue using Huawei products "as much as possible," bucking a global trend prompted by security concerns and a US ban on the Chinese...

Myanmar’s military is guilty of committing new “war crimes,” extrajudicial killings and torture in its fight against ethnic Rakhine rebels, Amnesty International said Wednesday.The armed...

Police on Tuesday arrested a former Iranian vice president and mayor of Tehran after he confessed to shooting one of his wives dead in her...

At least seven tourists from South Korea lost their lives and around 19 other people went missing after a sightseeing boat they were travelling in...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday inspected the Japanese Izumo-class destroyer Kaga at the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Yokosuka base in...

At least 15 Taliban militants were killed in a series of operations conducted by Afghan forces in Southern Helmand province on Monday.According to the Khamma...

China's Communist Party newspaper warned the United States on Wednesday that the country was ready to use rare earths to strike back in their bitter...

Taiwan landed warplanes on a normally busy highway Tuesday to simulate a response to a Chinese attack on its airfields, part of annual drills designed...

A day after three consecutive blasts in Kathmandu claimed the lives of four people, Nepal on Monday morning witnessed incidents of violence in different parts...

Two people, including a child, were feared dead Tuesday in a mass stabbing attack that also injured 17 people in the Japanese city of Kawasaki,...

Iran hit out at the United States on Monday for "causing tensions" after President Donald Trump said his government was not seeking regime change and...

A court here on Monday announced death sentence for a fourth French citizen in a row for joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the...

Iraq offered to mediate in the crisis between its two key allies, the United States and Iran, amid escalating Middle East tensions and as Tehran’s...

US National Security Adviser John Bolton is "inordinately ignorant" to argue that North Korea's recent missile tests violated United Nations resolutions, the North's foreign ministry...

Two Thai political parties were meeting leaders of a pro-army party on Monday (May 27) to discuss a possible deal to keep military government chief...

Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown in...

In an apparent contradiction of his national security adviser, President Donald Trump on Sunday downplayed recent North Korean missile tests, tweeting from Tokyo that they’re...

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan warned against the risk of conflict in the region, following a visit to Islamabad by Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif...

The Kerala coast has been put on high alert following intelligence reports that boats carrying 15 ISIS terrorists had set off from Sri Lanka to...

Lauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the efforts made by his government to enhance the Indian economy, Mu Degui, a Member of the Standing Committee...

The Pakistani and Indian prime ministers exchanged messages via Twitter on Thursday hoping for peace, after Narendra Modi returned to power in New Delhi in...

A second straight landslide election defeat for opposition Congress leader Rahul Gandhi raised serious questions Friday about his leadership and cast a damaging shadow over...

When President Donald Trump visits Japan, he’ll be able to point to Tokyo’s streets to drive home a sore point in trade relations between the...

Thousands of supporters of a populist Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim cleric urged political and factional leaders on Friday to stay out of any conflict between Baghdad’s...

The US military said it sent two Navy ships through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday (May 22), a move likely to anger Beijing at a...

India began Thursday (May 23) the mammoth process of counting the roughly 600 million votes cast in the world's biggest election, with results due later...

Thousands of documents purportedly collected from abandoned Syrian government offices during the country’s civil war reveal the reach of President Bashar Assad’s shadowy, labyrinthine security...

China must prepare for difficult times as the international situation is increasingly complex, President Xi Jinping said in comments carried by state media on Wednesday,...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said Tuesday they launched a bomb-laden drone targeting an airport in Saudi Arabia that also has a military base inside of it,...

One month after the Sri Lanka suicide attacks that killed more than 250 people, investigators have told AFP the bombers used "Mother of Satan" explosives...

Igbal Sobham Chowdhary, advisor to Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina confirmed that Bangladesh has taken firm steps to restrict Terror ‘elements’ from using their land for...

Former Pahang ruler Sultan Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah died on Wednesday morning (May 22).The former ruler, who is the father of Malaysian King Sultan Abdullah...

Iran quadrupled its uranium-enrichment production capacity amid tensions with the U.S. over Tehran’s atomic program, nuclear officials said Monday, just after U.S. President Donald Trump...

Incumbent President Joko Widodo won last month's Indonesian election with 55.5 per cent of votes against 44.5 per cent for his challenger, retired General Prabowo...

Qatari state-funded broadcaster Al Jazeera suspended two journalists on Sunday over a video they produced claiming the extent of the Holocaust was being misrepresented by...

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi announced that Pakistan has decided to send its 1987 batch foreign service officer, Moin ul Haque, as the High...

Seven French navy fighter jets were forced to make an emergency landing in Indonesia's northern most province due to bad weather, an air force official...

With most of the exit polls predicting a majority for the NDA, former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hoping that the...

U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad was scheduled to visit Tibet this week, a U.S. embassy spokesperson said, the first visit to the region by...

Sri Lanka's president marked the 10th anniversary of the end of a protracted war with Tamil rebels by vowing to crush the militants responsible for...

The US embassy in Jakarta has issued a security alert ahead of election results due on Wednesday (May 22), as Indonesian authorities have arrested nearly...

Former BIGBANG member Seungri has admitted having sex with prostitutes.Broadcaster Channel A reported Saturday that Seungri, 28, made the admission during a hearing on his...

An attentive dog in northeastern Thailand is being hailed as a hero after finding and saving an infant allegedly buried in a field by his...

Pollution increased in some of China's major lakes, rivers and reservoirs in the first quarter even though the country's overall water quality improved, the official...

Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday that attacks on two of its oil tankers and a major pipeline targeted not only its own security but that...

Sri Lankan authorities said they have arrested 60 people linked to the communal riots as a nationwide curfew was lifted on Wednesday, which witnessed Sinhalese...

Parents nervously watch as their children wait to be tested for HIV in a village in southern Pakistan, where hundreds of people have been allegedly...

Pakistan on Wednesday arrested Maulana Abdul Rehman Makki — the brother-in-law of outlawed Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed.Abdul Rehman Makki has been detained...

The United States on Wednesday ordered all nonessential government staff to leave Iraq, and Germany and the Netherlands both suspended their military assistance programs in...

A vast Chinese-funded infrastructure project in Pakistan has become a major trigger for separatist insurgents, galvanising their movement as they employ new tactics - including...

All Malaysian Members of Parliament – including those in the opposition – will be required to declare their assets, as part of measures outlined in...

An Indian-origin woman in the US has been convicted by a jury of killing her nine-year-old stepdaughter in 2016 and faces up to life in...

A Sri Lankan software engineer suspected by authorities in Sri Lanka of having provided technical and logistical support to the Easter Sunday suicide bombers was...

Allies of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte have dominated a mid-term Senate election according to unofficial results on Tuesday (May 14), indicating growing support for the...

South Korean pop star Seungri arrived at court Tuesday (May 14) to await a decision on whether he should be arrested over charges including prostitution...

The Nepal government has come under severe criticism from media groups and the Opposition after it registered in Parliament a bill which, according to experts,...

North Korea said on Tuesday (May 14) the seizure of one of its cargo ships by the United States was an illegal act that violated...

Crime in Johor Bahru has fallen this year, according to figures announced by Johor police deputy chief Mohd Kamarudin Md Din on Sunday (May 12).There...

Cho Min-kyong boasts an engineering degree from one of South Korea's top universities, a school design award and a near-perfect score in her English proficiency...

The United States and China appeared at a deadlock over trade negotiations on Sunday (May 12) as Washington demanded promises of concrete changes to Chinese...

Sri Lanka is temporarily blocking some social media networks and messaging apps, including Facebook and WhatsApp, it said on Monday (May 13) after attacks on...

Hong Kong’s legislative assembly descended into chaos Saturday as lawmakers for and against controversial amendments to the territory’s extradition law clashed over access to the...

Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Friday met his Vietnamese counterpart Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh and various other Vietnam leaders and expressed hope that countries would...

At least three heavily-armed militants on Saturday stormed a five-star hotel in Pakistan's port city of Gwadar in the restive Balochistan province, leading to a...

An Afghanistan journalist and a cultural advisor to the Parliament was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the eastern part of Kabul on Sunday.Mina Mangal,...

Seventy countries urged North Korea on Friday to scrap its nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles and related programs, decrying the "undiminished threat" posed to world peace.Signatories...

Singapore has reported its first case of the rare monkeypox virus brought in by a Nigerian man who authorities said may have been infected by...

US President Donald Trump's tariff increase to 25 per cent on USD 200 billion worth of Chinese goods took effect on Friday, and Beijing said...

China's top trade negotiator Liu He said on Friday in Washington that trade talks with the US would continue in Beijing but warned that there...

About 200 children in Sri Lanka have lost their family members, some of them sole breadwinners, in the massive Easter Sunday bombings, according to a...