Crisis-hit Sri Lanka yesterday announced its first nationwide elections since its president fled and resigned in the face of widespread protests, in what will be a test of popularity for his successor. Local government polls will be held before the end of

An explosion at the entrance to a military airfield in the Afghan capital killed and wounded several people yesterday, an official told AFP.

The United Nations said Thursday it would not stop providing help to Afghanistan despite the Taliban ban on women working in the country's aid sector..“Let me make it very clear that the United Nations and humanitarian partners are very committed to the delivery of life-saving services to

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today condoled the death of Heeraben, mother of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

G7 foreign ministers yesterday called on the Taliban to “urgently reverse” a ban on women working in Afghanistan’s aid sector.

G7 foreign ministers today called on the Taliban to "urgently reverse" a ban on women working in Afghanistan's aid sector.

The UN Security Council has called for the full, equal and meaningful participation of women and girls in Afghanistan, denouncing a ban by the

A Pakistan court freed a rapist after he married his victim in a settlement brokered by a council of elders in the northwest of the country, his lawyer said yesterday.

A Pakistan court freed a rapist after he married his victim in a settlement brokered by a council of elders in the northwest of the country, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Taiwan will extend compulsory military service to one year from four months from 2024 due to the rising threat the democratically governed island faces from its giant neighbour China, President Tsai Ing-wen said yesterday.

At least 180 ethnic Rohingya stranded at sea for weeks after leaving Bangladesh in November are feared dead, as their rickety boat is thought to have sunk this month, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said.

Marwa was just a few months away from becoming the first woman in her Afghan family to go to university -- instead, she will watch achingly as her brother goes without her.

Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO) to stop female employees from coming to work, according to an economy ministry letter, in the latest crackdown on women's freedoms.

Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police say is responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, was released from a Nepal prison yesterday after nearly two decades behind bars.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned the Taliban that the United States will impose “costs” on the group if it does not reverse its recent ban on women attending university in Afghanistan.

A policeman was killed and at least six people — including four police officers and two civilians — were injured in a suicide blast in Islamabad's I-10/4 sector on Friday, police officials said.

A small group of Afghan women yesterday staged a defiant protest in Kabul against a Taliban order banning them from universities, an activist said, adding that some were arrested.

Hundreds of young women were stopped by armed guards yesterday from entering Afghan university campuses, a day after the nation’s Taliban rulers banned them from higher education in another assault on human rights.

Says a student in Kabul, asking not to be identified, as hundreds of young women are stopped by armed guards from entering Afghan university campuses

The Taliban authorities on Tuesday ordered a nationwide ban on university education for females, as the hardline Islamists continue to crush Afghan women’s right to education and freedom.