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Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump discussed bilateral cooperation and the issue of Taiwan in a phone call yesterday, Beijing’s state news agency Xinhua reported.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos said yesterday his family was “very worried” about his senator sister, suggesting she was unwell after she accused him of drug abuse at a recent rally.

China yesterday slammed Japan’s decision to push ahead with a planned deployment of missiles on an island near Taiwan, escalating a weeks-long diplomatic spat.

A suicide bombing killed three Pakistani paramilitary personnel yesterday at a security headquarters in Peshawar city, officials said, the latest deadly violence in the province bordering Afghanistan.

'Three Federal Constabulary personnel deployed at the gate were martyred and four others were wounded'

Hundreds of thousands of new voters have registered to cast their ballot in Nepal’s first polls since a mass uprising in September ousted the government, election officials said yesterday.

Election Commission spokesman said there was "a total of 837,094 registered names" of first-time voters

Relentless rain has lashed south-central Vietnam since late October

Indian counter-terrorism units raided the office of The Kashmir Times over its alleged role in a “criminal conspiracy”, police said, with the news website calling the accusations “baseless” yesterday.

Aircraft explodes upon impact

A curfew was in force yesterday in a Nepalese town following clashes between young activists and loyalists of the former ruling party that was overthrown in a deadly September uprising.

China ran a disinformation campaign to hurt sales of the French Rafale fighter jet after India used the planes in May for the first time against Chinese weapons deployed by its neighbour Pakistan, a bipartisan US commission said this month in a report that the Chinese rejected as false information.

Pakistan security forces killed 30 militants in two targeted operations near the Afghan frontier, the army said yesterday, a week after a suicide bombing killed 12 people in Islamabad.

Responds to suicide bombing killing 12 last week in Islamabad

He will meet Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus during his three-day trip

Conclave to weigh maritime security, counter-terrorism, and a regional action plan

After the 2011 tsunami and meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Japan shut down all of its nuclear reactors

New Delhi stays silent on Dhaka’s call for ousted PM's extradition

Many victims reportedly women and children as India sets up emergency helpline support