US President Donald Trump says on he has called off a secret summit with the Taliban and Afghanistan's leader, abruptly slamming the door on a year of diplomacy to end America's longest war.

Riot police fanned out across Hong Kong yesterday and thwarted plans by pro-democracy protesters to target the airport, days after

Pakistan yesterday said it had denied India’s President Ram Nath Kovind permission to fly through its airspace -- access to which is

An express train travelling at around 120 kilometres per hour smashed into a truck at a crossing south of Tokyo yesterday, sparking a

North Korea has told the United Nations to cut the number of international staff it deploys in the country because the world body’s programs have failed “due to the politicization of UN assistance by hostile forces,” according to a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

A Taliban suicide blast in the centre of Kabul killed at least 10 civilians and two NATO soldiers, destroying cars and shops in an area near the headquarters of Afghanistan's international military force and the US embassy.

Myanmar is holding insurgent suspects incommunicado in a practice that may be covering up torture, UN human rights experts says.

Hong Kong’s embattled leader insisted yesterday she had no intention of stepping down after an audio recording emerged of her

Authorities’ attempt to charge an Indian journalist who exposed the poor quality of meals served at a government school triggered

The Assam government will provide legal aid to the needy people from amongst those who have been excluded from the final list of

Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday both Pakistan and India are nuclear-armed states and escalation of tension may threaten world peace, adding that Pakistan will never start a military conflict.

At least four people, including three CISF personnel, were killed after a massive fire broke out in the stormwater drainage at ONGC’s gas

Eight schoolchildren have died and two others were injured in a “school-related criminal case” in central China, with a 40-year-old

An attacker kills eight students and injures two others at an elementary school in central China on the first day of the new semester, police says.

The United States and ten Southeast Asian countries kicked off maritime drills yesterday, as part of a joint exercise extending into the

Thousands of black-clad students rallied in central Hong Kong yesterday at the start of a two-week university boycott, piling pressure

An abducted Maldivian journalist was murdered by Islamist militants, a panel investigating deaths and disappearances under the previous

Indian probe Chandrayaan-2’s lander Vikram detached itself from atop the main spacecraft yesterday afternoon as planned, as it got

A South Korean lawmaker provoked outrage yesterday when he berated a female economics professor nominated as the country’s

Pakistan openly practises terrorism and there is no scope for negotiations until Islamabad reins in its financing and recruitment of