The US ambassador to Moscow visited a makeshift shrine to Alexei Navalny yesterday, as Russian authorities suppressed memorials and tributes to the late opposition leader.

China yesterday said it would step up law enforcement patrols in waters near Taiwan, after two Chinese nationals died in a boat incident involving Taiwan’s coast guard.

Authorities in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban, yesterday ordered its officials not to take pictures or videos of “living things”. In a letter addressed to civil and military officials,

Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released on parole yesterday, just six months after he was arrested following a dramatic return to the kingdom from 15 years of self-imposed exile.

Egypt is preparing safe areas for Palestinian refugees, Cairo said, as the key Qatar negotiator in the ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas admitted they have made no progress in recent days.

An Indian Hindu nationalist organisation has launched a court petition to stop two lions named after the Hindu deity Sita and a 16th-century Muslim emperor from sharing a zoo enclosure

Events on the battlefield in Ukraine are a matter of "life and death" for Russia that could determine its fate, President Vladimir Putin said in remarks aired Sunday

Biden versus Trump: The lineup in the 2024 US election has long been a foregone conclusion, with a rematch between the two presidents appearing all but certain

"Palestinian people should have the right to have their own state, that is clear"

The hundreds of flowers and candles laid in Moscow on Friday to honour the memory of Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition leader, were taken away overnight in black bags

Thailand's convicted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released on parole on Sunday, his lawyer said, starting a first day of freedom in his homeland, 15 years after fleeing in the wake of his overthrow by the royalist military

Mediator Qatar acknowledged on Saturday that prospects for a new pause in Israel's war with Hamas were "not really promising" as Israel rejected appeals to hold off on a threatened assault on the Gaza city of Rafah

A senior bureaucrat said yesterday he helped rig Pakistan’s elections, a week after polls marred by allegations of manipulation returned no clear winner.

Alexei Navalny’s mother was told yesterday that Russia’s most prominent opposition leader had been struck down by “sudden death syndrome” and that his body would not be handed over to the family until an investigation was completed, his team said.

Japan’s space agency toasted a successful blast-off for its new flagship rocket yesterday, making it third time lucky after years of delays and two previous failed attempts.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference 2024.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels yesterday claimed an attack a day earlier on an oil tanker in the Red Sea, the latest in a series of strikes which have led to retaliation by Britain and the United States.

A 30-year-old man killed 12 relatives in Iran, official media reported yesterday, in a rare mass shooting in the country.

Tech giants including Meta, Microsoft, and TikTok signed a pledge Friday to crack down on AI content intended to deceive voters ahead of crucial elections around the world this year.

Ten people were killed and 15 more injured in an explosion at a fireworks factory in India yesterday, police said.