A government-appointed panel established in Myanmar to probe allegations of abuses in Rakhine state in 2017 that drew global outrage says they had found no evidence of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

China, which has positioned itself as the key mediator in resolving the Rohingya crisis, is finding the business of diplomacy tough going, with little signs that the crisis will soon be resolved.

Iran says it could quit the global nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European countries refer it to the UN Security Council over a nuclear agreement, a move that would overturn diplomacy in its confrontation with the West.

Canadians who cannot afford regular meals are more likely to die early, according to a study, showing that people are dying from hunger even in wealthy countries.

After refusing to cooperate with the Democratic Party-led impeachment probe in the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump is set to offer his first comprehensive defense, before his trial begins in earnest in the Senate.

Seasoned politician Jagat Prakash Nadda is elected unopposed as the President of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is set to be handed over the baton by his powerful predecessor and Indian Home Minister Amit Shah.

Nearly 1 in 3 adolescent girls from the poorest households around the world has never been to school, according to a new Unicef paper.

China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, the state planner says as it seeks to tackle one of the country’s biggest environmental problems.

The world's billionaires have doubled in the past decade and are richer than 60 percent of the global population, the charity Oxfam says.

Israel’s army said it would start drilling to install ground sensors along its border with Lebanon yesterday, a year after an operation to destroy tunnels dug across the frontier.

Almost 400 people were wounded during running battles between Lebanese anti-government protesters and security forces in Beirut Saturday, rescuers said, the heaviest toll since the demonstrations erupted three months ago.

Cameras “miles in the sky”, a countdown and then “boom”: US President Donald Trump has recounted the final moments of Iran’s powerful General Qassem Soleimani in an American drone strike.

Libya’s military strongman Khalifa Haftar must drop his “hostile attitude” so that the conflict in the war-torn nation can be resolved, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said ahead of crunch talks in Berlin yesterday.

President Vladimir Putin has said he does not want Russia to return to the Soviet-era practice of rulers dying in office without a succession plan, as speculation swirls over his future after he unleashed a political upheaval this week.

Sri Lanka and India vowed to strengthen military ties and widen maritime links with neighbours after security talks, the president’s office said yesterday, as China’s economic clout increases in the region.

Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan began a new life yesterday as -- somewhat -- ordinary people with financial worries and security concerns after being stripped of their royal titles and public funding by the Queen.

Facebook apologised Saturday for a distasteful mistranslation of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s name from Burmese language posts

China reported 17 new cases of the mysterious SARS-like virus yesterday, including three people in serious condition, heightening fears

A morbidly obese Islamic State (IS) leader, often dubbed as “Jabba the Jihadi”, has been captured by Iraqi forces.

The bodies of the 11 Ukrainian citizens who died when a passenger plane was accidentally shot down by Iran this month are brought back to Ukraine in a solemn ceremony at Kiev airport.