Myanmar authorities claimed to have submitted a compliance report to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Turkey-based Anadolu Agency reports.

The British government has extended foreign nationals' stay in the UK until July 31 for those whose visas have or are expiring.

India recorded the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus cases with 6,767 new patients in the last 24 hours.

The Taliban declared a three-day Eid ceasefire in Afghanistan starting Sunday, via a tweet on Saturday from the hardline Islamist group, and the country’s president said the government would reciprocate.

Brazil has become the world no. 2 hotspot for coronavirus cases, second only to the United States, after it confirmed that 330,890 people had been infected by the virus, overtaking Russia, the Health Ministry says.

The Indian Army troops are deployed in Kolkata and neighbouring districts in West Bengal to help civil authorities restore essential infrastructure and services which were badly hit by Cyclone Amphan on May 20.

India’s Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said the government will try to resume international passenger flights -- suspended since March due to coronavirus outbreak -- before August this year.

The flight data recorder from the Pakistani airliner that crashed into a residential neighbourhood of Karachi has been found, an official said on Saturday, as the death toll rose to 97.

More than 660,000 people have been displaced from their homes in conflict zones around the world since March, despite a UN call for a global

Sri Lanka yesterday lifted a ban on wedding receptions as part of an easing of coronavirus restrictions, but grooms may not kiss the bride -- at

A Myanmar news editor has been jailed for two years after his agency reported a coronavirus death that turned out to be false, his lawyer said

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he plans to withdraw the United States from the Open Skies Treaty with Russia, the third arms control pact Trump has abrogated since coming to office.

The family of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi yesterday said that they had forgiven the men who murdered their father, paving the way for a legal reprieve for five defendants sentenced to death for the October 2018 killing.

The pandemic has killed at least 332,870 people worldwide since it surfaced in China late last year, according to an AFP tally at 1100 GMT on

Iran’s supreme leader said it was an “Islamic duty” to fight for the “liberation of Palestine” in a landmark speech yesterday amid rising tensions with regional arch-enemy Israel.

A Chinese proposal to impose national security laws on Hong Kong could see mainland intelligence agencies set up bases there, raising fears of direct law enforcement and what US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called a “death knell” for the city’s autonomy.

Eid-ul-Fitr will begin on Sunday (May 24), authorities in Saudi Arabia have announced.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged all to work together to preserve biodiversity and help achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

At least 40 dead bodies have been recovered after a Pakistani plane crashed with nearly 100 people on board in the southern city of Karachi, according to rescue officials, with dozens more feared dead.

The main coronavirus treatment centre in southern Yemen has recorded at least 68 deaths in just over two weeks, the medical charity running the site says, more than double the toll announced by Yemeni authorities so far.