Ex-Thai MP shoots dead local official over money row
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Southeast Asia
Thai teen kills 7 in rampage at home, school
8 August 2026
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Asia
Thailand teen kills seven in home, school shooting
7 August 2026
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Southeast Asia
Four dead, 15 injured in Thailand school shooting: deputy minister
7 August 2026
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Asia
North Korea fires short-range ballistic missile
7 August 2026
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Asia
Indian visa scam alert: High Commission warns applicants in Bangladesh
6 August 2026
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South Asia
Pakistan restricts international media reporting outside main cities
6 August 2026
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South Asia
India youth protests highlight mistrust in 'lapdog' media
6 August 2026
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India
Rukhsar Ahmed, rape accused in UK, wins Pakistan-occupied Kashmir election on bail
6 August 2026
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South Asia
Lightning strikes kill 14 in India’s Jharkhand
6 August 2026
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India
5 years on, MH370 families band together to seek closure
Five years ago, their loved ones boarded a plane and vanished. The group of Malaysians meet about once a month - usually at a coffee shop or a home in Kuala Lumpur - to support each other and try to keep missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 in the public eye..
2 March 2019
Pakistan to lodge 'eco-terrorism' complaint against India over airstrikes
Pakistan plans to lodge a complaint of "eco-terrorism" against India after airstrikes by New Delhi in Pakistani territory this week damaged dozens of trees, its climate change minister tells.
2 March 2019
Trump urged Kim to go 'all in' on nuclear poker
US President Donald Trump urged North Korea's Kim Jong Un to go "all in" during their high-stakes nuclear negotiations but talks floundered amid differences over sanctions and the definition of "denuclearisation", a senior State Department official said yesterday.
1 March 2019
Putin calls Modi expressing solidarity in fight against terror
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and conveyed solidarity of his country with India in the latter’s fight against terrorism.
1 March 2019
United States and North Korea since 1945
The peninsula is divided along the 38th parallel between the Soviet-backed regime of Kim Il-Sung in the North and a South under United States protection
28 February 2019
US acting Pentagon chief focused on de-escalating India-Pakistan tensions
Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan is focused on de-escalating tensions between India and Pakistan and urged them both to avoid further military action, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, without saying if he had spoken with his counterparts from either nation.
28 February 2019
The Philippines offers Rohingyas citizenship
The Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday offered citizenship to Rohingya refugees, reiterating his willingness to accept them into the country.
27 February 2019
60 buried in Indonesia mine collapse
A landslide in an unauthorised gold mine in Bolaang Mongondow regency, North Sulawesi of Indonesia buried at least 60 miners, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) says.
27 February 2019
China urges India, Pakistan to 'exercise restraint' after air strike
China urges India and Pakistan to "exercise restraint" after New Delhi said its warplanes attacked a militant camp, in a move that sent tensions soaring between the arch-rivals over disputed Kashmir.
26 February 2019
Imran Khan summons 'important meeting' in wake of India strike
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will hold an emergency meeting, according to the country’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
26 February 2019
Emperor urges Japan to be open to outside
Japan's Emperor Akihito urged his country to be open to the outside world at a ceremony marking 30 years of his reign yesterday, ahead of his abdication later this year.
24 February 2019
N Korea warns US sceptics as Kim heads for Vietnam
North Korea yesterday warned President Donald Trump not to listen to US critics who were disrupting efforts to improve ties, as its leader, Kim Jong Un, made his way across China by train to a second summit with Trump in Vietnam.
24 February 2019
Sushma Swaraj to attend OIC meet
India yesterday announced its External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will attend the inaugural plenary session of the 46th session of the
23 February 2019
February 21 observed at German University
South Asia Institute (SAI) of Heidelberg University in Germany on Thursday observed the International Mother Language Day for the first
23 February 2019
Myanmar army warns against charter change
Myanmar's military yesterday said they would thwart attempts by leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party to alter the "essence" of the country's
23 February 2019
Toxic alcohol toll hits 93 in Assam
Ninety-three workers have died and at least 200 others have been hospitalised in northeastern India after drinking toxic liquor,
23 February 2019
Indian airports on high alert
Airports across India have been put on high alert yesterday after an airline's operation centre in Mumbai got a call that an Indian carrier's
23 February 2019
Kim's train arrives in China: reports
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's armoured train arrived in China late yesterday ahead of his highly anticipated second summit with US
23 February 2019
Protest leaders dismiss Sudan emergency
Sudanese protest leaders yesterday dismissed veteran President Omar al-Bashir's declaration of a state of emergency and vowed to
23 February 2019
Unite to wipe out terror networks
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday that the time has come for the global community to "unite and act" to completely
22 February 2019