Gunfire continued to ring out on Sunday in the volatile district bordering Afgha­nistan, despite authorities’ claims of having brokered a ceasefire between two feuding tribes in Kurram.

Security forces in Venezuela have fired tear gas and rubber bullets against people protesting over Sunday’s disputed election result.

Over the past 15 years, China has come to dominate the global market for solar energy.

Police took a suspect into custody after at least eight people were stabbed in the British seaside town of Southport.

One person is dead and at least six others are injured after shots were fired at a large gathering in Rochester, New York, on Sunday evening.

China “imposes its authoritarianism” on Taiwan, according to US filmmaker Garret Clarke, who has made a documentary on why the self-governing island country cannot use its name to compete in major international sports events.

A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 people including children on Saturday, Israeli authorities said, blaming Hezbollah and vowing to inflict a heavy price on the Iran-backed Lebanese group.

Olympic organisers have issued a ’’deep apology’’ after South Korea’s athletes were mistakenly introduced as North Korea at the opening ceremony in Paris.

In a bold move, the U.S. State Department has declared its intention to enforce visa restrictions on Chinese officials implicated in the oppression of religious and ethnic minorities within China.

An international human rights watchdog called upon the Chinese authorities on Tuesday for the illegal imprisonment and further torture of Ilham Tohti, a renowned Uyghur activist and intellectual, Amnesty International said in a statement.

Nippon Steel (5401.T), opens new tab will dissolve its joint venture with China’s Baoshan Iron & Steel (600019.SS), opens new tab, it said on Tuesday, ending two decades of cooperation when their existing shareholders’ agreement expires at the en

A tanker carrying close to 1.5 million litres of industrial fuel has capsized and sank off the Philippine capital on Thursday, causing an oil spill, officials say.

Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Hafiz Naeemur Rahman on Sunday warned against new military operations and said that the bureaucracy must mend their ways and acknowledge their failures, Geo News reported, quoting The News.

A court in the United Arab Emirates has handed 57 Bangladeshis long prison terms for holding protests in the Gulf state against their own country’s government.

China has issued controversial judicial guidelines targeting ’’die-hard’’ supporters of Taiwanese independence, urging them to renounce their stance or face criminal penalties.

Health authorities in India’s Kerala state have issued an alert after a 14-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus.

ByteDance, the owner of global hit short video platform TikTok, has lost a legal challenge that sought to reverse a European Union decision stating that the firm should not favour its own service over rivals.

MUMBAI: Chandrayaan-3, whose success made India the world’s first country to have landed near the lunar South Pole, has been awarded the World Space Award by the International Astronautical Federation.

U.S. President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign on Sunday after fellow Democrats lost faith in his mental acuity and ability to beat Donald Trump, leaving the presidential race in uncharted territory, the foreign media reported.

As Democrats churn over whether President Joe Biden should stay in the 2024 race, the party turmoil is deepening over whether his Vice President Kamala Harris is next in line for the job or if a “mini primary” should be quickly launched to choose

Singapore directed social media platforms to block nearly 100 online accounts of exiled Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui over posts deemed detrimental to the interests of the city-state.

Cyber-security experts and agencies around the world are warning people about a wave of opportunistic hacking attempts linked to the IT outage.

Taiwan’s companies are shifting supply chains from China to India, the country’s key trade body chair told Reuters in an interview.

A major fire broke out on a container cargo merchant vessel about 102 nautical miles southwest of Goa, causing explosions on the front part of the ship on Friday evening. The vessel was on a passage from Mundra port in Gujarat to Colombo in Sri Lanka

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the most followed world leader on X (formerly known as Twitter), surpassing the 100 million followers mark.

Bangladesh has announced the imposition of a curfew and the deployment of military forces after days of clashes at protests against government job quotas across the country.

Top defence officials from Japan, US and South Korea vowed to boost countries’ trilateral relations and cooperation and achieve peace amid rising security risks from China and North Korea, Nikkei Asia reported.

China withdrew cash from its banking system for a fifth consecutive month amid caution toward monetary easing as currency depreciation pressures mount.

The 16th edition of the India-Mongolia Joint Military Exercise, Nomadic Elephant 2024, concluded on Tuesday, and the two sides engaged in a meaningful dialogue about future joint operations, symbolising the deepened ties and mutual respect cultivated

Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 and is suffering mild symptoms, the White House has said.