Sri Lanka’s top court yesterday ordered the government to proceed with a delayed local election, overruling President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who said the country was too broke to pay for it.

The world cannot recover from a spate of crises if its poorest nations are forgotten, the UN envoy for the least developed countries told AFP ahead of a key summit

Sri Lankan workers went on strike yesterday in defiance of a government ban to protest a rescue plan for the bankrupt island nation, forcing the closure of hospitals, banks and ports.

Sri Lanka’s government said yesterday it was banning strikes in several key sectors, a day ahead of a planned one-day national stoppage called by unions to protest against painfully high taxes and utility bills.

Taliban forces killed a top Islamic State commander who allegedly planned attacks against diplomatic missions in Afghanistan’s capital, a government official said.

Splits within Nepal’s communist-dominated coalition plunged the Himalayan nation into crisis yesterday as a Marxist-Leninist party said it would withdraw support after the Maoist prime minister backed an opposition candidate for the presidency.

Splits within Nepal's communist-dominated ruling coalition plunged the Himalayan nation into crisis today as a Marxist-Leninist party said it would withdraw support after the Maoist prime minister backed an opposition candidate for the presidency..Nepal has had 11 governments since it abol

At least four people were killed and 14 wounded in an explosion inside the Rakhni market in Balochistan's Barkhan today morning, police and health officials said

Nepal’s ruling coalition was in turmoil yesterday after the prime minister said he planned to support a presidential candidate from an opposition party, a decision that prompted the deputy prime minister and three other ministers to resign.

India wants the geopolitical tension to be referred to as a "crisis" or a "challenge" while the US and other western nations want to describe it as nothing short of "war"

The project comes after Sri Lanka awarded Adani a $700 million strategic port terminal project in Colombo in 2021

Pakistan will this week receive a new $700 million loan from China to help shore up its foreign exchange reserves, the country’s finance minister said yesterday, in another step to help the South Asian nation recover from an economic crisis.

The belt-tightening comes as Islamabad - which is facing a balance of payment crisis - thrashes out a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to secure funds worth $1 billion

Bankrupt Sri Lanka is set to postpone local elections due next month, according to a top official, prompting opposition protests yesterday that forced parliament

Pakistan’s Taliban yesterday warned of more attacks against law enforcement officers, a day after four people were killed when a suicide squad stormed a police compound in Karachi.

A North Korean missile that is believed to have landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone was intercontinental ballistic missile-class, the government in Tokyo said yesterday.

A group of officials from Shanghai arrived in Taiwan yesterday for the first visit to the island by Chinese politicians since 2020.

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi yesterday blasted the United States’s reaction to what Washington has called a Chinese spy balloon as “hysterical and absurd”, in uncharacteristically strong remarks against the top Western power.

Militants yesterday stormed the office of the Karachi police chief in southern Pakistan, which was cleared after hours-long operation that left at least three gunmen dead.

Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement