Saudi Arabia’s crown prince meant to send a strong message to critics within the royal family by detaining senior princes this weekend: Don’t you dare oppose my succession to the throne.

American forces have started pulling out of two bases in Afghanistan, a US official said yesterday, amid report that President Ashraf Ghani was about to issue a decree for at least 1,000 Taliban prisoners to be released this week, paving the way for opening direct talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban insurgents.

A man from London becomes the second person to be cured of HIV after undergoing stem cell transplant treatment, doctors say, after finding no trace of infection 30 months after he stopped traditional treatment.

Myanmar police said the army had filed a lawsuit against Reuters news agency and a local lawmaker for criminal defamation, weeks after

India is using its massive mobile phone network to spread coronavirus awareness messages, kicking off with coughing sounds, on how

Malaysia’s new Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin named the chief executive of CIMB Group as finance minister yesterday, and appointed a

British police shot dead a man brandishing two knives near parliament in central London, officers said yesterday, adding that the incident

Sudan’s post-uprising Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok escaped unharmed yesterday as an assassination attempt using explosives

A Japanese politician yesterday apologised after he made $86,000 auctioning face masks online as the country deals with a shortage

Italy’s prime minister yesterday promised “massive shock therapy” to beat the coronavirus and urged Europe to act decisively after markets plunged and his country sealed off much of its wealthy industrial north.

As dawn breaks the unmistakable tapered towers of Angkor Wat emerge from the gloom - but for once there are no tourists jostling on its steps to capture Cambodia’s most famous sunrise.

Worldwide major arms exports have increased on growing demand from countries in conflict, researchers in Sweden said yesterday, with top exporter the United States widening its lead over Russia.

Afghanistan lurched deeper into political crisis yesterday as the rivals for the country’s leadership had themselves sworn in at simultaneous ceremonies that were interrupted by at least two blasts.

China closed most of its makeshift hospitals for coronavirus patients, some schools reopened and Disney resort staff went back to work yesterday as normality slowly returns to the country after weeks battling the epidemic.

Myanmar police say the army has filed a lawsuit against Reuters news agency and a local lawmaker for criminal defamation, weeks after the military objected to a news story published about the death of two Rohingya Muslim women as a result of shelling in Rakhine state.

A British national of Bangladeshi origin succumbs to coronavirus infection yesterday at a hospital in UK’s Manchester, the third death from the disease in the country.

Allahabad High Court in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, orders authorities to remove large displays of the names, pictures and addresses of dozens of anti-government protesters, amid fears that they encourage attacks by vigilante mobs.

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok survived an assassination attempt targeting his convoy as he headed to work in the capital Khartoum, officials say.

Saudi Arabia imposed a temporary lockdown on its eastern oil-producing province of Qatif, home to most of its 15 coronavirus infections, and suspended schools and universities nationwide.

Saudi Arabia released images of King Salman carrying out his royal duties yesterday, after a stunning purge of at least three princes