Sri Lanka yesterday notified the UN that it was withdrawing from a United Nations resolution for investigating alleged war crimes committed during a decades-long conflict with Tamil separatists.

The death toll from violence over the citizenship law in different parts of India’s capital Delhi rises to 27.

Rival political factions competed to win favour with Mahathir Mohamad yesterday after he plunged Malaysia into political turmoil by resigning as prime minister, reinforcing the likelihood his shock move will strengthen his power.

A Japanese man recently named the world’s oldest living male has died aged 112, a local official said yesterday. Chitetsu Watanabe, who was born on March 5, 1907 in Niigata, north of Tokyo, died on Sunday at his nursing home in the same prefecture, the official said.

Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad goes back to work with the new title of interim prime minister, a day after he resigned the leadership in a shock move that plunged the country into political turmoil.

A team of four Sherpas yesterday set off to attempt a record winter ascent of Mount Everest in just five days, which would also be the first winter climb of the peak in more than quarter of a century.

Two Wall Street Journal reporters left China yesterday after being expelled over a controversial headline in an op-ed that angered Beijing.

Sri Lanka will deploy troops to help police control worsening traffic congestion in the capital, the army said yesterday.

Schools in Kashmir reopened yesterday after remaining shut for nearly seven months following the abrogation of Article 370. Officials of the Jammu and Kashmir education department said all arrangements had been put in place for the students to attend schools after the institutions remained shut for months since August after scrapping of its special status and due to winter break.

The lockdown of Guo Jing’s neighbourhood in Wuhan -- the city at the heart of China’s new coronavirus epidemic -- came suddenly and without warning.

Malaysia's King has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad but appoints him as interim premier.

US President Donald Trump lands in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on Monday at the start of a visit during which the two sides will aim to reset relations that have been buffeted by a trade spat.

Non-residents of Wuhan may leave the quarantined city at the epicentre of China's virus epidemic if they show no symptoms and have never had contact with patients, authorities say.

China's death toll from the coronavirus epidemic rose to 2,442 after the government says 97 more people had died, all but one of them in the epicentre of Hubei province.

Samsung Electronics says that one coronavirus case had been confirmed at its mobile device factory complex in the southeastern city of Gumi, causing a shutdown of its entire facility there until Monday morning.

The death toll in China from the new coronavirus outbreak rose by 109, the National Health Commission says, bringing the total number of fatalities to 2,345.

A stridently anti-military Thai party was dissolved Friday and its key members banned from politics for a decade over a $6 million loan by its billionaire founder, a withering blow to the kingdom’s pro-democracy movement.

China could start clinical trials for a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus around late April, an official said yesterday.

China will waive trade-war tariffs on imports of selected US medical equipment from March 2, the government says, as the country battles to contain the new coronavirus epidemic.

The United States' ambassador to Germany says that President Donald Trump threatened to cut off intelligence-sharing with countries that dealt with Chinese tech firm Huawei.