Thousands of South Koreans gathered for rival demonstrations in the capital yesterday, as investigators prepare another attempt to arrest suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law decree.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was “overwhelmed” to be back in her native Pakistan yesterday, as she attended a summit on girls’ education in the Islamic world that has been snubbed by Afghanistan’s Taliban government.

Authorities moved more than 47,000 people to shelters in earthquake-hit Tibet, Chinese officials said yesterday, while rescuers widen a massive combing effort for survivors near the foothills of the Himalayas, despite slim survival odds.

At least six people lost their lives, and dozens were injured in a stampede at a renowned Hindu temple in Tirupati of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh last night

Delhi-based newspaper reports citing people ‘familiar with the matter’

South Korean anti-graft investigators yesterday secured a new court-ordered arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, whose failed martial law bid threw the country into turmoil.

Three soldiers and 19 militants were killed in the latest clashes in Pakistan’s restive northwestern region, the military said Tuesday.

Over 1.55 crore Delhi voters will vote in the assembly elections on February 5 and the votes will be counted on February 8, the Indian Election Commission announced yesterday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said a new hypersonic missile system tested this week would help deter the country's Pacific rivals, state media reported Tuesday, as Washington's top diplomat visited the region

More than 260 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, arrived in Indonesia’s westernmost province of Aceh after floating at sea for days, an official said yesterday.

Five infants tested positive for the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Gujarat yesterday, the first reported cases of the virus in India.

Eight security men and a civilian were killed when outlawed Maoists blew up their vehicle with an improvised explosive device in central Indian state of Chhattisgarh today, police said

A three-month-old and an eight-month-old in the same hospital test positive

South Korean authorities have extended the closure of a southwestern airport where a Jeju Air plane crashed and killed 179 people onboard, the land ministry said Monday

South Korean investigators trying to arrest suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol have asked for an extension to the warrant that expires Monday, with the embattled leader holed up in his residence

The cowpea seeds were sent on the PS-4 Orbital Experiment Module (POEM-4) mission on December 30 and have germinated in the near zero-gravity conditions in just four days and enclosed the surroundings of space

Malaysia yesterday said it expelled two boats ferrying about 300 undocumented migrants from Myanmar from the country’s waters.

A fire at a vegetable market in north China killed eight people and injured 15 yesterday, local authorities reported.

The world’s oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, has died aged 116.

Thousands of rival South Korean protesters rallied in the capital yesterday, a day after a failed attempt to arrest suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol for imposing a short-lived martial law decree that led to his impeachment.