A gunman killed one person and wounded another at a shopping centre in Bangkok, police say, 10 days after a mass shooting at another mall in Thailand’s northeast.

Health authorities scrambled yesterday to track hundreds of passengers who disembarked from a cruise ship in Cambodia last week after a woman tested positive for coronavirus, heightening fears about the spread of the disease around the world.

A gang of knife-wielding men jumped a delivery driver in Hong Kong and stole hundreds of toilet rolls, police said yesterday, in a city wracked by shortages caused by coronavirus panic-buying.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday insisted that his country is no longer a militant safe haven, and said his administration fully supports the Afghan peace process.

Several gunmen shot dead a Somali journalist near Mogadishu, police said yesterday, in the latest attack on press. Freelance

India’s top court yesterday ruled that women could serve as army commanders, dismissing the government’s stance that male soldiers were not ready to accept orders from female officers as “disturbing”.

At least five Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban fighters stormed their base in northern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday,

India yesterday summoned the Turkish ambassador to lodge a diplomatic protest over President Tayyip Erdogan’s remarks on the disputed region of Kashmir and warned it would have a bearing on bilateral ties.

When artist Rachita Taneja heads out to protest in New Delhi, she covers her face with a pollution mask, a hoodie or a scarf to reduce the risk of being identified by police facial recognition software.

A Russian-backed regime offensive in northwest Syria has displaced 900,000 people since the start of December, and babies are dying of cold because aid camps are full, the UN said yesterday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday warned against “blanket measures” over the novel coronavirus outbreak, pointing out the epidemic outside of China was only affecting a “tiny” proportion of the population.

A British lawmaker, who chairs an all-party group on Kashmir, has been denied entry to India after she criticised the government’s decision to strip the disputed region Himalayan region of its constitutional autonomy.

A buffalo jockey in India has refused to take part in a track and field trial after his record-setting performance in a traditional footrace

Gunmen have killed 24 people and wounded 18 in an attack on a Protestant church in a village in northern Burkina Faso, officials

Armed men have massacred 22 villagers including 14 children in an anglophone region of Cameroon, according to the United

For the past two weeks China’s police have been raiding houses, restaurants and makeshift markets across the country, arresting nearly 700 people for breaking the temporary ban on catching, selling or eating wild animals.

A British lawmaker, who chairs an all-party group on Kashmir, is denied entry to India after she criticised the government's decision to strip the disputed region Himalayan region of its constitutional autonomy.

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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday voiced cautious optimism about a partial truce agreed between the Taliban and US and said

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday discussed with US counterpart Donald Trump ways to end the crisis in Idlib, Syria’s