North Korea said yesterday it had succeeded in putting a military spy satellite into orbit, with state media claiming leader Kim Jong Un was already reviewing images of US military bases in Guam sent by Pyongyang’s new eye in the sky.

More than 200 Rohingyas came ashore in Indonesia’s Aceh province late on Tuesday, taking total arrivals of members of the Myanmar minority to more than 1,000 for the week, a leader of the province’s fishing community said.

US authorities thwarted a plot to kill a Sikh separatist in the United States and issued a warning to India over concerns the government in New Delhi was involved, the Financial Times reported yesterday, citing unnamed sources.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court yesterday accepted a bail application from detained former prime minister Imran Khan, his lawyer said, a day after another court declared illegal his trial on charges of leaking state secrets.

More than 200 Rohingya refugees were huddled on the beaches of a remote Indonesian island today after weeks adrift on a wooden boat, as authorities rejected locals' efforts to push the members of the persecuted Myanmar minority back to sea

Pakistan's Supreme Court accepted today a bail application from detained former Prime Minister Imran Khan, his lawyer said, a day after another court declared illegal his trial on charges of leaking state secrets

India today resumed electronic visa services for Canadian nationals after a two-month hiatus, according to reports by Indian media

China urged all parties on Wednesday to remain "calm and restrained" after North Korea said it had succeeded in putting a military spy satellite in orbit, sparking condemnation from the United States and South Korea

A Pakistani court yesterday declared the jail trial of former prime minister Imran Khan on charges of leaking state secrets illegal, his lawyer said.

North Korea has fired what it claims is a military spy satellite, Seoul’s armed forces said yesterday, hours after Japan confirmed that Pyongyang had warned it of an imminent launch.

India’s money laundering investigators yesterday said they seized properties worth 7.52 billion Indian rupees ($90.34 million) in a probe linked to a nine-year-old complaint against opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia.

Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday called for an “international peace conference” to resolve the conflict between Israel and Hamas, as he addressed a virtual summit of fellow BRICS leaders.

Indian rescuers today made public the first video of the 41 workers trapped inside a partially collapsed tunnel in the northern state of Uttarakhand for 10 days.

Rising sea levels threaten to swamp the Maldives and the Indian Ocean archipelago is already out of drinking water, but the new president says he has scrapped plans to relocate citizens.

Addressing the inauguration event on his elevation as the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu said he will ensure that the small Island nation “has no foreign military presence on its soil”.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron discussed the Israel-Hamas war in a phone call yesterday, agreeing “to avoid a more serious humanitarian crisis”, Beijing’s state media reported.

Maldives new President Mohamed Muizzu, who campaigned on altering the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago’s “India first” policy, has requested India to withdraw its military from the country.

Taiwan reported renewed Chinese military activity around the island yesterday, with nine aircraft crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait and warships carrying out “combat readiness patrols”.

Indian authorities were exploring five new plans to rescue workers trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in the Indian Himalayas after a week of failed attempts

Rescuers trying to reach workers trapped for nearly a week in a collapsed highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas began working on an alternate plan yesterday, after the operation hit a snag the day before.