North Korea likely has “more in store” after successfully test-firing its largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile, a top US official said Friday, as Washington called for tougher international sanctions at the UN Security Council.

Thousands of people fled their homes near a Philippine volcano Saturday after an eruption sent ash and steam hundreds of metres into the sky.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers refused to allow dozens of women to board several flights, including some overseas, because they were traveling without a male guardian, two Afghan airline officials said Saturday.

About two dozen girls and women chanting "open the schools" protested in the Afghan capital Saturday against the Taliban's decision to shut their secondary schools just hours after re-opening them this week.

The Bangladeshi cargo ship MV Marintrust-1, which tilted a couple of days ago, has been hemmed by a temporary floating barrier by authorities of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee port in Kolkata to guard against possible oil spill from the vessel, officials said.

The man was allegedly supplying Rohingya from Myanmar and Bangladesh via Thailand to work in Malaysia.

Two major Sri Lanka newspapers are suspending their print editions because of a lack of paper, their owner said yesterday, the latest casualties in the island’s economic crisis.

India said yesterday ties with China could not be normal until their troops pulled back from each other on the disputed border, but Beijing struck a conciliatory note during a meeting of their foreign ministers in New Delhi.

The speaker of Pakistan’s parliament yesterday adjourned a motion of no-confidence in Prime Minister Imran Khan, provoking opposition accusations he was buying time for the ex-cricketer to muster support after a spate of defections from his party.

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated five individuals and five entities connected to Myanmar military regime.

India today made it clear that ties with China cannot be normal without restoration of normalcy in unresolved border areas across the Himalayas as Foreign Ministers S Jaishankar and Wang Yi held their first talks in New Delhi in two years.

A Bangladeshi national was found dead inside the room of a hotel in central Kolkata on Thursday, a media report said today quoting police.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said he will not resign, rejecting opposition calls for him to step down ahead of a no-confidence move against him in his toughest challenge since coming to power in 2018.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in New Delhi tonight on a previously unannounced visit, the first to India by a senior leader from Beijing since the armies of the two countries were involved in a clash in eastern Ladakh in May, 2020.

India today reacted sharply to references made to it in statements and resolutions adopted in the meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Council, in Pakistan.

India’s Supreme Court today declined a request for an early hearing on the petitions challenging the Karnataka High Court’s ruling that upheld a ban on wearing of hijabs inside educational institutions.

India on Wednesday termed Chinese foreign minister’s reference to Jammu and Kashmir during the meeting of Organization of Islamic Cooperation “uncalled” for.

Oil prices rose on Wednesday amid volatile trading on increasing concerns of global supply tightness from sanctions imposed on Russia, the world’s second-largest oil exporter, and on signs that exports from Kazakhstan may be disrupted.

The OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in Islamabad today unanimously adopted a resolution on the “Situation of the Rohingya Muslim Community in Myanmar” to keep the momentum in exerting continuous pressure on Myanmar authorities.

Chinese searchers found on Wednesday one of two black boxes from a China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS) plane that crashed this week in forest-clad mountains with 132 people onboard, the aviation regulator said.