A suicide bomber struck one of the biggest mosques in western Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least 18 people, including an influential imam who earlier this year called for those who commit “the smallest act” against the government to be beheaded.

A blast outside a mosque in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 18 people including a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric in what authorities said was an attack.

A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday found deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of electoral fraud and sentenced her to three years in jail with hard labour, a source familiar with the proceedings said.

Bankrupt Sri Lanka yesterday agreed a conditional $2.9 billion bailout with International Monetary Fund negotiators, as the island nation seeks to overcome a bruising economic crisis that saw its president flee the country.

Sri Lanka has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan of about $2.9 billion, the global lender said on Thursday, as the country seeks a way out its worst economic crisis in decades.

A Cambodian psychiatrist treating victims of the Khmer Rouge and a French environmentalist cleaning up Indonesian rivers were among the winners yesterday

Afghanistan’s Taliban marked the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led forces yesterday by calling on the international community to “learn” from the experience and accept them as the legitimate government.

Army helicopters flew sorties over cut-off areas in Pakistan’s mountainous north yesterday and rescue parties fanned out across waterlogged plains in the south as misery mounted for millions trapped by the worst floods in the country’s history.

Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan was given an additional week to answer contempt of court charges brought against him for criticising a magistrate,

On August 15, 1975, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed along with most of his family members and a government of turncoats was installed in power.

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will on Tuesday slash defence and other expenditures in a bid to win International Monetary Fund (IMF) support as he presents his first budget since taking over as leader of his crisis-hit country.

Pakistan’s flooded southern Sindh province yesterday braced for a fresh deluge from swollen rivers in the north as the death toll from this year’s monsoon topped 1,000.

Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan topped 1,000 since mid-June, officials said Sunday, as the country’s climate minister called the deadly monsoon season “a serious climate catastrophe.”

Two mortar shells from Myanmar side were fired across the border today (August 28, 2022) at Tumbru area under Bandarban's Naikhyangchhari upazila creating panic among locals.

Pakistan witnessed another day of deaths and devastation yesterday as dozens of people were left dead and thousands stranded as a result of landslides and floods in the country’s north amid “high to very high” floods in Kabul and Indus rivers.

Tens of thousands of people fled their homes in northern Pakistan on Saturday after a fast-rising river destroyed a major bridge, as deadly floods cause devastation across the country.

Suspended Thai leader Prayuth Chan-ocha said on social media he will continue in his role as defence minister, in his first direct address to the public since a court ordered him to cease his duties as prime minister while it reviews his term limit.

Heavy rain pounded much of Pakistan yesterday after the government declared an emergency to deal with monsoon flooding it said had affected more than 30 million people.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan yesterday accused the government of trying to score a “technical knockout” against him, after being granted bail on charges brought under the country’s anti-terrorism act.

More than 180 people have been killed and 3,000 homes destroyed by floods in Afghanistan over the past month, a government spokesman said yesterday.