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.

At least nine people died when floodwaters swept away children in a river in northern Pakistan and relatives jumped into the water to try to save them yesterday, officials said.

One expert said India needs to grasp the reality of the new power structure in Bangladesh and move ahead

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told his Chinese counterpart that the two countries should seek a “permanent solution” to their decades-old border dispute, in a new push for a conclusive outcome.

Sri Lanka’s top court yesterday halted a government move to acquire land in northern regions still reeling from the consequences 16 years after the end of a decades-long civil war.

Six people have died from floods inundating China’s Guizhou province, state media said yesterday, after more than 80,000 people were driven from their homes this week.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said Bangla-speaking people from the state were being branded as “Bangladeshis” in some BJP-ruled states.

The United Nations human rights chief yesterday urged Sri Lanka to ensure accountability for crimes committed during its protracted ethnic war.

Bhumjaithai has 69 seats and would need the support of another 30 lawmakers to launch the motion when parliament reconvenes on July 3

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra yesterday began a cabinet reshuffle as a political and judicial crisis sparked by a leaked phone call threatens to sink her government.

New Delhi’s counter-terrorism agency said yesterday it has arrested two men in India-administered Kashmir for allegedly harbouring Pakistani gunmen behind a deadly attack on civilians that sparked a days-long conflict between the two countries.