Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday said he will not run for vice president in 2022 and will retire from politics, potentially paving the way for his daughter to contest the country’s highest office. 

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Saturday he was retiring from politics, a surprise move that fuelled speculation he was clearing the way for his daughter to run to succeed him, despite her filing for re-election as mayor.

Myanmar is facing a “severe crisis” with the number of people needing aid tripling to three million in the eight months since the military launched a coup, the UN humanitarian coordinator to the country said has said.

Myanmar’s junta has said it was unlikely an Asean special envoy tasked with facilitating dialogue in the coup-hit country would be allowed to meet ousted pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

In a retaliatory move, India has decided to impose a mandatory 10-day home quarantine for all British nationals, irrespective of vaccination status, arriving in the country from October 4.

Armenia has detained on corruption charges the former defence minister who headed the country’s military during last year’s disastrous war with Azerbaijan, officials said yesterday.

Nepal has introduced a third gender category in its census for the first time, a move the Himalayan nation’s LGBTQ community hopes will bring them greater rights.

By-polls for Bhabanipur, Jangipur, Samserganj constituencies in West Bengal took place yesterday.

Qatar and the EU’s top diplomats yesterday labelled a recent string of human rights abuses in Afghanistan “disappointing”, with Doha encouraging the Taliban to look to Qatar for how to run an Islamic system.

Russia yesterday threatened to block YouTube and take other retaliatory measures, after the US video-sharing platform blocked the German-language channels of state broadcaster RT.

The stage is set for today’s assembly by-polls in south Kolkata’s high-profile Bhabanipur constituency where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is seeking the people’s mandate to enter the state legislature in order to retain her post.

The Taliban yesterday warned of consequences if the United States did not stop flying drones over Afghan airspace.

China's vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is in danger of losing momentum as opposition in targeted countries rises and debts mount, paving the way for rival schemes to squeeze Beijing out, a new study showed on Wednesday.

The Taliban on Wednesday warned of consequences if the United States did not stop flying drones over Afghan airspace.

Japan’s former foreign minister Fumio Kishida is set to be sworn in as Mr Yoshihide Suga’s successor as Prime Minister, after he won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s internal election on Wednesday (Sept 29).

A man was administered an anti-rabies shot instead of Covid-19 vaccine at a medical centre in a slum area under Thane district of the Indian state Maharashtra. A doctor and a nurse were suspended following the incident, a civic official said.

An American brother and sister barred from exiting China since 2018 in an apparent bid to pressure their father to return and face criminal allegations have finally left the country, Beijing and Washington confirmed yesterday.

North Korea fired a missile towards the sea off its east coast yesterday, South Korea’s military said, as Pyongyang called on the United States and South Korea to scrap their “double standards” on weapons programmes to restart talks.

Women will no longer be allowed to attend classes or work at Kabul University “until an Islamic environment is created,” the school’s new Taliban-appointed chancellor announced Monday, in the latest move excluding Afghanistan’s women from public life.

The Philippines has approved Covid-19 jabs for children as young as 12, an aide to President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday, as the country battles surging infections fuelled by the hyper-contagious Delta variant.