-- 2019-03-05 13:19:57
China has accused two Canadians of spying, as tensions between the nations grow over the possible extradition of a Huawei executive to the US. Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat, and Michael Spavor, a...
-- 2019-03-04 19:34:43
Flash floods in southern Pakistan and Afghanistan have killed at least 20 people. The unusually heavy rains over the past 10 days have cut off tens of thousands of people. The Afghan government has...
-- 2019-03-04 14:52:02
The United States said on Sunday it was trying to find out if Pakistan used US-built F-16 jets to down an Indian warplane, potentially in violation of US agreements, as the stand-off between the nucle...
-- 2019-03-04 10:55:29
Palestinians drove a car into several Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Monday and the three attackers were shot by troops, the military said. Two of the assailants were “neutralize...
-- 2019-03-03 21:55:57
South Korea and the US are eliminating their massive springtime military drills and replacing them with smaller exercises as part of efforts to support diplomacy aimed at resolving the North Korean nu...
-- 2019-03-03 19:43:15
Afghanistan has given $1.0 million to the main UN programme for Palestinian refugees. Abdul Rahim Sayed Jan, Afghanistan's ambassador to Turkey, presented the donation on Sunday to Pierre Krähen...
-- 2019-03-03 17:08:05
As India and Pakistan seemingly dial down hostilities that brought the arch enemies to the brink of another war, a massive crackdown on militancy in the Indian-controlled Kashmir region is killing bot...
-- 2019-03-03 13:40:23
At least 20 people including children were killed in southern Afghanistan by flash floods that engulfed up to 2,000 homes and swept away cars, the UN agency coordinating relief efforts said on Saturda...
-- 2019-03-03 10:10:29
A top Indian minister said on Saturday the government would not share proof that "a very large number" of militants were killed in air strikes inside Pakistan this week, after doubts were raised there...
-- 2019-03-03 09:49:48
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that North Korea does not have any economic future with nuclear weapons as the Pentagon confirmed the United States and South Korea had agreed to end joint l...
-- 2019-03-02 17:54:04
Islamic State faced final territorial defeat on Saturday as the US-backed Syrian force battling the jihadists said it was closing in on their last bastion near the Iraqi border, capping four years of...
-- 2019-03-02 17:19:12
Iran criticised Britain for its decision to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation, saying on Saturday it ignored both the will of a large portion of the Lebanese people and the Tehran-backed grou...
-- 2019-03-02 13:38:46
Two more ministers in Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s cabinet said on Saturday they will not contest elections due in May, adding to a flurry of high-profile resignations as opinion p...
-- 2019-03-02 13:10:05
Indian and Pakistani soldiers again targeted each other's posts and villages along their volatile frontier in disputed Kashmir, killing at least four civilians and wounding four others, officials said...
-- 2019-03-01 22:14:02
Pakistan, on Friday, has freed an Indian fighter pilot captured after his plane was shot down in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Wednesday. Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was handed over to Ind...
-- 2019-03-01 21:08:43
Captured pilot of Indian Air Force Abhinandan Varthaman is will be handed over to Indian High Commission officials at Pakistan's Wagah border on Friday night two days after he was taken into custody b...
-- 2019-03-01 20:29:30
China has cancelled all flights to and from Pakistan and rerouted its international aircraft flying over the Pakistani airspace due to the regional tensions, official media in China reported on Friday...
-- 2019-03-01 20:10:39
Pakistan will re-open its airspace for all commercial flights, which were suspended after military tensions with India erupted earlier this week, on Monday. The decision to re-open Pakistani airspac...
-- 2019-03-01 19:42:00
Thailand on Friday defended a controversial cyber security law approved this week, following an outcry from rights groups and internet users over privacy and surveillance concerns. 'Rubber-stamp' par...
-- 2019-03-01 17:42:03
A Chinese diplomat to Ankara has warned that Turkey's criticism about Beijing’s treatment of Uighur Muslims would affect mutual trust and understanding negatively and will be reflected in commer...
-- 2019-03-01 15:23:22
Australia has experienced its hottest summer on record, according to the nation's Bureau of Meteorology. Hundreds of individual heat records were shattered across the country over the past three mont...
-- 2019-03-01 13:09:32
India banned a Kashmir-based Islamist political party called Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) for five years on Thursday, accusing it of supporting militancy in the disputed region that is at the heart of an esc...
-- 2019-03-01 10:20:47
Israel’s attorney-general announced on Thursday he intends to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, a decision coming just six weeks before a closely contested national...
-- 2019-02-28 17:34:42
The Indian pilot shot down and captured by Pakistani forces this week will be released on Friday, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said as efforts to cool a crisis between the two nuclear-armed nei...
-- 2019-02-28 14:55:18
China’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that it hopes dialogue and communication between the United States and North Korea can continue. Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a regular news briefin...
-- 2019-02-28 14:14:24
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he hoped the conflict between India and Pakistan will be coming to an end, after the two nuclear powers clashed across a contested border in the disputed Kas...
-- 2019-02-28 13:45:41
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un failed to reach an agreement on denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula at their summit in Vietnam on Thursday, the White House said. Ea...
-- 2019-02-28 12:56:18
Pakistani police say troops deployed in the disputed region of Kashmir continued trading fire with India overnight, forcing villagers living near the contested frontier to move to safer places even as...
-- 2019-02-28 12:31:38
Thousands of travellers were left scrambling on Thursday when Thai Airways International cancelled more than a dozen flights to and from Europe after Pakistan closed its airspace amid rising tensions...
-- 2019-02-27 21:31:07
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has said his country will be compelled to respond if India violates sovereignty of Pakistan. In his address to nation on Wednesday, Imran Khan also invited India'...
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