An explosion in northwest Pakistan yesterday killed at least four local government officials and police officers, a police official told AFP.
A remote island chain in southern Japan has been shaken by more than 900 quakes in the last two weeks, the weather agency said yesterday, with residents saying they were unable to sleep.
Since January, 691,049 people have returned, 70 percent of whom were forcibly sent back
A magnitude-5.3 earthquake struck central Pakistan on Sunday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey
Thousands of anti-government protesters rallied in the Thai capital of Bangkok yesterday, demanding Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra resign after a leaked diplomatic phone call stirred public anger.
Heavy rain and flash flooding across Pakistan have killed 32 people including 16 children since the start of the monsoon season this week, disaster management officials said.
A suicide attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban killed 16 soldiers and wounded more than two dozen people, including civilians, local government officials and police officers told AFP yesterday.
Indian police have arrested three men accused of gang raping a law student in Kolkata, officials said yesterday, a case that has reignited anger in a city still scarred by the rape and murder of a doctor last year.
India yesterday banned the imports of certain jute products and woven fabrics from Bangladesh through land ports.
Japan yesterday executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation’s first enactment of the death penalty since 2022.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said Bangla-speaking people from the state were being branded as “Bangladeshis” in some BJP-ruled states.
"We are in contact with Air India regarding Flight 171 and stand ready to support them," said a Boeing statement
It’s the first Dreamliner crash since its 2011 commercial debut, says Aviation Safety Network
South Korea yesterday halted loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts into the nuclear-armed North, the defence ministry said, adding it was a bid to “restore trust” under Seoul’s new administration.
There were no immediate reports of damage
More than a thousand fans gathered at the site of a press conference near the army base where singer Jimin and singer Jungkook were discharged
Over the past 33 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties, the two countries have transcended differences in ideology and social systems and actively advanced exchanges
Myanmar anti-coup guerrillas claimed to shoot down a junta jet yesterday, declaring a rare victory over the air force which has kept them at bay in a grinding civil war.
Thirteen victims died at the scene near the town of Gerik, on the busy East-West Highway near the Thai border, while two died in hospital
Vice Premier He Lifeng will be in the United Kingdom between June 8 and June 13
