Dozens of Shia women demonstrated in western Afghanistan yesterday against attacks on the Muslim minority at the funeral of several members of their community killed days before.

Nine people, including two off-duty army personnel, were killed when gunmen opened fire on a bus travelling through northern Pakistan, causing it to crash into an oncoming truck and catch fire, officials said yesterday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the polls outcome would resonate in upcoming parliamentary elections in a few months when he seeks a third consecutive mandate to govern the country

Riding on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's charisma, BJP were set to win state assembly elections today in the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh

At least three people were killed and seven wounded in a bomb attack on a Catholic mass in the insurgency-plagued southern Philippines on Sunday, officials said

The Philippines lifted a tsunami alert early on Sunday as waves receded from a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck the south of the country, triggering coastal evacuations and some waves in there and in Japan

An earthquake of at least magnitude 7.5 struck Mindanao in the southern Philippines late yesterday, triggering evacuation orders for some areas and southwestern Japanese coasts because of warnings of tsunami waves of a metre (3 feet) or more.

China’s surge in respiratory illness is caused by known pathogens and there is no sign of new infectious diseases, a health official said on Saturday as the country faces its first full winter since lifting strict Covid-19 restrictions.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, currently in jail facing myriad charges he says are rigged to keep him from contesting elections next year, was replaced yesterday as head of the party he founded, officials said.

One of ousted Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan's lawyers was elected on Saturday as chairman of his party, allowing it to take part in a national vote scheduled for February as the former cricketer is in jail and barred from taking part

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, currently in jail facing myriad charges he says are rigged to keep him from contesting elections next year, was replaced Saturday as head of the party he founded, officials said

More than 100 Rohingya refugees including women and children landed in Indonesia's westernmost province on Saturday, officials said, but locals were threatening to push them back to sea

A SpaceX rocket on Friday launched South Korea's first military spy satellite, intensifying a space race on the peninsula after Pyongyang launched its own first military eye in the sky last week

Ethnic minority fighters clashed with Myanmar’s military on a major trade route to Thailand yesterday, blocking traffic and sending people fleeing, residents and local media said.

Japan’s coastguard yesterday scoured the seabed for the wreckage of an Osprey US military aircraft that crashed this week, with still no sign of seven missing airmen.

At least seven people were killed yesterday when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a rickshaw carrying two Shia clerics in western Afghanistan, an official and residents said.

Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan are the only two countries where polio remains endemic and vaccination teams are frequently targeted by militants

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today said the country’s borders with Bangladesh and Pakistan would be completely secure in the next two years, with work underway to plug gaps in stretches of about 60km along these two fronts.

A Malaysian court has charged four people including a Malaysian police official over the abduction and torture of a Bangladeshi journalist

Delhi today termed the US charging an Indian national with conspiring to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil as a “matter of concern.”