A blast hit a cultural centre during an event for journalists in northern Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least one security guard and wounding eight, according to authorities and journalists, a few days after the province’s governor died in an explosion claimed by Islamic State.

A blast hit a cultural centre during an event for journalists in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding eight, according to authorities and journalists, a few days after the province's governor died in an explosion claimed by Islamic State

Amid a bitter crisis in its ruling coalition, Nepal yesterday elected a social democrat as its third president since the Himalayan nation ended a centuries-old monarchy.

Pakistani police lobbed tear gas shells and baton-charged supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan in clashes which injured several on both sides yesterday, a government minister and his party said.

A suicide bomber killed nine police officers and wounded 16 others yesterday in an attack on their truck in southwestern Pakistan, officials said.

"The suicide bomber was riding a motorbike and hit the truck from behind"

It is the third ban on broadcasting and rebroadcasting of Khan's speeches and press talks on all satellite TV channels

North Korea’s foreign ministry called on the United Nations to urge a halt to joint military drills by Seoul and Washington, state media reported yesterday.

Police in Pakistan said officers attempted on Sunday to arrest former prime minister Imran Khan, who is battling several legal cases as he pressures the government for early elections

Sri Lanka’s top court yesterday ordered the government to proceed with a delayed local election, overruling President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who said the country was too broke to pay for it.

The world cannot recover from a spate of crises if its poorest nations are forgotten, the UN envoy for the least developed countries told AFP ahead of a key summit

Sri Lankan workers went on strike yesterday in defiance of a government ban to protest a rescue plan for the bankrupt island nation, forcing the closure of hospitals, banks and ports.

Taliban forces killed a top Islamic State commander who allegedly planned attacks against diplomatic missions in Afghanistan’s capital, a government official said.

Sri Lanka’s government said yesterday it was banning strikes in several key sectors, a day ahead of a planned one-day national stoppage called by unions to protest against painfully high taxes and utility bills.

Splits within Nepal’s communist-dominated coalition plunged the Himalayan nation into crisis yesterday as a Marxist-Leninist party said it would withdraw support after the Maoist prime minister backed an opposition candidate for the presidency.

Splits within Nepal's communist-dominated ruling coalition plunged the Himalayan nation into crisis today as a Marxist-Leninist party said it would withdraw support after the Maoist prime minister backed an opposition candidate for the presidency..Nepal has had 11 governments since it abol

At least four people were killed and 14 wounded in an explosion inside the Rakhni market in Balochistan's Barkhan today morning, police and health officials said

Nepal’s ruling coalition was in turmoil yesterday after the prime minister said he planned to support a presidential candidate from an opposition party, a decision that prompted the deputy prime minister and three other ministers to resign.

India wants the geopolitical tension to be referred to as a "crisis" or a "challenge" while the US and other western nations want to describe it as nothing short of "war"

The project comes after Sri Lanka awarded Adani a $700 million strategic port terminal project in Colombo in 2021