Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was headed home from Vancouver yesterday as two Canadians were released from prison in China, ending a bitter diplomatic row that has poisoned ties for three years.

The Hong Kong pro-democracy group that organised three decades of vigils commemorating the victims of Beijing’s Tiananmen

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi didn’t directly mention Pakistan or China in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, but the targets of his address were clear.

The Taliban hung the bodies of four kidnappers from cranes after killing them during a shootout in Afghanistan’s western city of Herat yesterday, a senior official said.

India and Pakistan clashed Friday at the United Nations as Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan accused the rival of a “reign of terror” on Muslims and appealed to the world to work with Afghanistan’s triumphant Taliban, drawing a stern rebuke.

China’s central bank on Friday said all financial transactions involving cryptocurrencies are illegal, sounding the death knell for the digital trade in China after a crackdown on the volatile currencies.

Taliban authorities in the western Afghan city of Herat killed four alleged kidnappers and hung their bodies up in public to deter others, a local government official said on Saturday.

Feminist activist, author and a women’s rights activist in India, Kamla Bhasin, passed away this morning at the age of 75.

No representative from Myanmar is scheduled to address the annual high-level UN General Assembly, a UN spokesman said on Friday, amid rival claims for the country's UN seat in New York after a military coup ousted the elected government.

One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.

An Indian salon has been ordered to pay more than $271,000 in damages to a model for a botched haircut which she claimed caused a “severe mental breakdown”.

Gunmen dressed as lawyers shot dead a notorious Indian gangster inside a Delhi courtroom yesterday before police killed the two assailants, investigators said.

Three people were killed in a shootout at a court in north Delhi's Rohini locality today, police said.

1932 - Indian activist Mahatma Gandhi agrees Poona Pact to end fast. 2002 - Britain published a dossier on Iraq’s weapons programme which suggested Saddam Hussein could launch a weapon of mass destruction.

An Indian man accused of attempted rape has been given bail on condition that he wash and iron the clothes of all women in his village for six months.

At the same time, the international community has to realise: What is the alternative? What are the options? This is the reality, and can they turn away from this reality?...

Myanmar is facing the alarming prospect of an escalating civil war as an uprising against the military junta widens, the UN’s human rights chief warned yesterday.

An Indian man accused of attempted rape has been given bail on condition that he wash and iron the clothes of all women in his village for six months.

Pakistan’s government is proposing that the international community develop a road map that leads to diplomatic recognition of the Taliban — with incentives if they fulfill its requirements — and then sit down face to face and talk it out with the militia’s leaders.

The United States announces nearly $180 million in additional humanitarian assistance for those affected by Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar, Bangladesh, and elsewhere in the region.