World / Asia

Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone In an Indian court (File photo)    BERLIN: A UN tribunal on Monday ordered India to halt court proceedings...

Nepalese pedestrians walks past closed shops during a strike called by the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) demanding secularism in the new...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said militants firing from Afghan territory killed four of its soldiers along the border yesterday, as tensions continue to rise between...

People ride past a digital billboard showing a sketch of the main suspect during last Monday’s attack on Erawan shrine, in Bangkok, yesterday.  ...

Beijing: An explosion at a chemical plant in east China late Saturday killed one person and injured nine people with 150 firefighters battling...

Congress party workers stage a protest against soaring price of onions, in Bhopal, yesterday. Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government yesterday asked district collectors to...

Kolkata: Taking strong exception to union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley taking a dig at West Bengal's erstwhile Left Front government, the CPI-M yesterday...

Villagers ferry sheep on a banana raft to a safer place at flood affected Buraburi village, in the Morigaon district of north eastern...

Karachi: The ready to harvest major and minor crops, including cotton, paddy, chilly and vegetables worth almost Rs85bn ($0.85bn) have been completely washed...

  BY JU-MIN PARK AND JACK KIM   BY JU-MIN PARK AND JACK KIM A South Korean army's Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) (R) is...

Residents wade across floodwaters caused by Typhoon Goni in Bacnotan, La Union, in northern Philippines on August 22, 2015. MANILA: A weakened Typhoon...

Senior Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah shouts pro-freedom slogans prior to his departure in New Delhi for talks with Pakistan's National Security Adviser...

Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj speaks during a press conference in New Delhi, yesterday. New Delhi/Islamabad: After going through several now-on, now-off...

A photograph made available by the South Korean Air Force shows Korean and US fighter jets flying over South Korea yesterday, in a...

WASHINGTON: China has reclaimed more land in the disputed Spratly Islands of the South China Sea than previously known, according to a new...

Manila: Ten people were killed while thousands fled to higher ground as powerful typhoon Goni brought torrential rains to the northern Philippines, triggering...

National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz addressing the media in Islamabad, yesterday.   Islamabad: Peace talks between India and Pakistan collapsed yesterday, hours before they...

Afghan policemen and security forces stand next to a charred body at the site of a car bomb, yesterday. KABUL: At least 12...