Tunisian authorities rescued 71 migrants including 37 Bangladesh nationals as their boat began to sink after setting out from neighbouring Libya for Italy, the National Guard says.

As birthday wishes pour in for the oldest prime minister in the world, Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad says he only has one birthday wish – to see Malaysia on the road to recovery.

China yesterday demanded that the United States “immediately cancel” a potential sale of $2.2 billion in arms to self-ruled Taiwan,

Hong Kong’s embattled pro-Beijing leader yesterday said a China extradition bill that sparked unprecedented political unrest “is dead”

Sri Lanka’s police chief and former defence secretary were released on bail yesterday, a week after they were arrested over allegations

The extradition bill that sparked Hong Kong's biggest crisis in decades is dead, the territory's leader says adding that the government's work on the legislation had been a "total failure", but critics accused her of playing with words.

A South Korean man has defected to North Korea, following in the footsteps of his political parents who also made a high-profile switch

Police arrested six people during a demonstration in one of Hong Kong’s most popular tourist areas on Sunday night, where thousands

The BJP-ruled government has no relation to the ongoing developments in Karnataka and did not put pressure on any MLA or MP to

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed his desire to stay at the country’s official residence in Washington instead of an

Five people are arrested during overnight clashes in Hong Kong between riot officers and anti-government protesters, police say, as the political violence rocking the international hub shows no sign of abating.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition is on course to grab a solid majority in Japan’s upper house elections this month and cement

Sri Lanka’s President yesterday announced he will not allow his government to conclude a proposed military deal that would allow US

Economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has said the affinity towards the slogan, ‘Jai Shri Ram’, was a recent development in West

Thousands of protesters marched in Yangon as outrage over the rape of a two-year-old spilled onto the streets following a viral online campaign in a case that has left Myanmar society reeling.

Dhaka and Beijing agree on speedy solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis as Chinese President Xi Jinping and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held talks in Beijing.

Bangladesh and Japan have discussed ways to further strengthen economic relation and cooperation between the two countries.

Bangladesh and China have signed nine instruments in different sectors ranging from aid for the Rohingyas and economic and technical cooperation, investment, power, culture and tourism.

At least four people have been killed and 21 still missing after a boat capsized in northwest Pakistan, officials have said, with a rescue operation continuing as hopes for finding survivors fade.

The Longqiao Cultural and Ecological Park in Sichuan, China, was due to reopen soon, but is now forced to stay closed for the remainder of the year after Chinese tourists picked all of its lotus flowers.