South Korea’s military yesterday scrambled stealth jets after detecting the mobilisation of 180 North Korean warplanes, Seoul said, following a record-breaking blitz of missile tests by Pyongyang this week.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz yesterday condemned threats to use atomic weapons in Ukraine, with Scholz warning that Russia risked “crossing a line” in the international community by resorting to nuclear force.

Authorities in Delhi today (November 4, 2022) ordered the closure of all primary schools from tomorrow and asked half of the city government’s staff to work from home in view of a sharp deterioration in air pollution in India’s national capital level.

Pakistani former prime minister Imran Khan was recovering in hospital on Friday after an assassination attempt that left him with a gunshot wound to the leg.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was shot in the shin yesterday when his anti-government protest convoy came under attack in the east of the country in what his aides said was a clear assassination attempt.

Delhi’s 20 million residents were effectively breathing smoke yesterday as the air quality index (AQI) breached the “severe” and “hazardous” categories in nearly all monitoring stations of the Indian capital, raising calls to close schools.

The death toll from a powerful storm that triggered flooding and landslides across the Philippines has reached 150, disaster officials said yesterday, as more rain was forecast in some of the hardest-hit areas.

Myanmar’s military government is responsible for a lack of progress on a peace plan agreed with Asean, Indonesia’s foreign minister said yesterday, adding the regional bloc has done its part in trying to end hostilities in the strife-torn country.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat will go to the polls next month, the election commission said yesterday, a vote that is likely to offer

North Korea unsuccessfully fired an intercontinental ballistic missile yesterday during a new salvo of launches, the South Korean military said, with Washington urging all nations to enforce sanctions on Pyongyang.

The sole suspect caught by police has said that he wanted to kill PTI Chairman Imran Khan because “he was misleading the public.”

Protests erupted across Pakistan on Thursday after PTI chairman Imran Khan was injured in gunfire during the long march in Wazirabad.

According to a report by TechCrunch, Ajit Mohan, the head of Facebook parent Meta in India, has left the company and decided to join rival Snap. Mohan will lead Snap's APAC division as its president, according to TechCrunch.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was in stable condition after being shot in the leg at a political rally on Thursday in what the country's president deemed "a heinous assassination attempt".

North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles on Thursday, including a possible intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that triggered an alert for residents in parts of central and northern Japan to seek shelter.

North Korea fired at least 23 missiles into the sea yesterday, including one that landed less than 60 km (40 miles) off South Korea’s coast, which the South’s President Yoon Suk-yeol described as “territorial encroachment.”

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, who is demanding an early general election in the country after being kicked out of office in April by a no-confidence vote, has compared his struggle for “real freedom” with that of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

North Korea fired at least 23 missiles into the sea on Wednesday, including one that landed less than 60 km (40 miles) off South Korea's coast, which South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol described as "territorial encroachment" and Washington denounced as "reckless".

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday (November 1, 2022) compared his struggle for ‘real freedom’ with that of Awami League chief Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and reminded that the country had split into two after a political party with a legitimate political mandate was denied its right to rule.

A North Korean ballistic missile landed less than 60 kilometres off South Korea's coast on Wednesday, the first time an apparent test had landed near the South's waters, prompting South Korea to issue rare air raid warnings and launch missiles in protest.