At least seven people were killed and 15 more wounded when a suicide blast tore through a Shia mosque in northern Afghanistan yesterday, the Taliban government said.

At least seven people were killed and 15 more wounded when a suicide blast tore through a minority Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan today, the Taliban government said.

The Delhi High Court today rejected a plea by NewsClick founder Prabir Purakayastha and the portal's human resources department head Amit Chakravarty challenging their arrest and subsequent remand in a case lodged under an anti-terror law

The first group of around 200 Indians, including students, returned home early today from war-hit Israel

Taiwan’s defence minister said yesterday China has stepped up “military intimidation” this year by flying an increased number of warplanes around the island as well as accelerating the deployment of ballistic missiles.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan said he is “stronger and fitter than ever” since being jailed two months ago, according to a statement released by his family yesterday.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation has registered an FIR for alleged violations of stringent Foreign Contribution Regulation (FCRA) Act by news portal NewsClick and carried out raids at two locations yesterday, officials said.

A strong earthquake rattled Afghanistan’s western province of Herat yesterday, forcing authorities to redeploy relief and rescue teams already in the field following a series of deadly quakes on Saturday.

China has released Australian journalist Cheng Lei after more than three years in detention, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Wednesday, adding she was now back in Melbourne

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Wednesday, hitting an area where more than 2,000 people were killed after a series of similar tremors on the weekend

Twenty-nine people were killed and dozens wounded in a military strike on a camp for displaced people in northern Myanmar, a spokesman for an ethnic rebel group that controls the area told AFP yesterday.

When China announced a surprise deal restoring ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran this year, it signalled Beijing’s desire to be a diplomatic heavyweight in the Middle East.

When China announced a surprise deal restoring ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran this year, it signalled Beijing's desire to be a diplomatic heavyweight in the Middle East

A Pakistan's special court formed under the Official Secrets Act on Monday decided to indict former prime minister Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the cipher case on October 17

Twenty-nine people were killed and dozens wounded in a military strike on a camp for displaced people in northern Myanmar, a spokesman for an ethnic rebel group that controls the area told AFP on Tuesday

Chinese President Xi Jinping said yesterday that China-US ties would impact the “destiny of mankind”, as he met with a group of American senators in Beijing.

Rescue workers yesterday scrambled to pull out survivors, and the dead, from beneath the rubble two days after the northwestern city of Herat and its surroundings were struck by the deadliest earthquakes to rattle Afghanistan in years.

China said Monday it "opposes and condemns" violence against civilians in Israel and the Palestinian territories

Japan issued a tsunami advisory for some coastal regions early Monday following a series of shallow earthquakes in the Izu islands in the Pacific Ocean but there were no immediate reports of damage from the minor waves generated, seismologists said

The death toll from a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan yesterday rose sharply again to more than 2,000, with nearly 10,000 injured, as rescue workers dug through razed villages for vanishing signs of life.