North Korea said yesterday it would deploy stronger armed forces and new weapons on its border with the South, a day after Seoul suspended part of a 2018 military accord between the two Koreas in a protest over Pyongyang’s launch of a spy satellite.

Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir released a prominent journalist on bail yesterday, nearly two years after he was arrested on charges of “glorifying terrorism” in the disputed territory and “spreading fake news”.

The World Health Organization has asked China for more data on respiratory illnesses spreading in the north of the country, but Beijing offered no public comment yesterday.

A US warship patrolling the Red Sea intercepted multiple attack drones launched from Huthi-controlled areas in Yemen yesterday, the US Central Command said.

A Pakistani court yesterday ordered authorities to produce former prime minister Imran Khan for trial on November 28 on charges of leaking state secrets, his lawyer said, in what would be his first public appearance since he was jailed in August.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned that the threat of the Gaza war spreading would grow unless a truce between Israel and Hamas lasts, in an interview as he visited Beirut.

Why a truce if they can’t go home? At Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, war-weary displaced Palestinians remain sceptical about the Israel-Hamas deal to exchange hostages for prisoners.

The efforts to rescue 41 workers from a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayan mountains tonight suffered a setback when the platform on which the drilling equipment is mounted developed cracks

The US has said it has foiled a reported plot to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil and has taken up the issue with the Indian government "at the senior-most levels", according to a report in The Financial Times of London

A doctor at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City told AFP that the facility's director and several other medical personnel were arrested by Israeli forces on Thursday

A Palestinian official told AFP Thursday that a delay in implementation of a truce in the Gaza Strip between Israeli forces and Hamas was due to "last minute" details over which hostages would be released and how.

Israel said a four-day Gaza truce and hostage release will not start until at least Friday, stalling a breakthrough deal to pause the brutal and bloody seven-week-old war

Israel’s government and Hamas yesterday agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza for at least four days to let in aid and release at least 50 hostages captured by Hamas fighters in exchange for at least 150 Palestinians jailed in Israel.

Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed four mummies of children believed to be at least 1,000 years old from what was once a sacred ceremonial space that is now in one of the oldest neighbourhoods of modern-day Lima.

Rescuers hope to drill through the last third of the debris blocking a collapsed tunnel in the Indian Himalayas by yesterday to reach 41 workers trapped for ten days, an official said, so long as there are no new hurdles.

North Korea said yesterday it had succeeded in putting a military spy satellite into orbit, with state media claiming leader Kim Jong Un was already reviewing images of US military bases in Guam sent by Pyongyang’s new eye in the sky.

More than 200 Rohingyas came ashore in Indonesia’s Aceh province late on Tuesday, taking total arrivals of members of the Myanmar minority to more than 1,000 for the week, a leader of the province’s fishing community said.

US authorities thwarted a plot to kill a Sikh separatist in the United States and issued a warning to India over concerns the government in New Delhi was involved, the Financial Times reported yesterday, citing unnamed sources.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court yesterday accepted a bail application from detained former prime minister Imran Khan, his lawyer said, a day after another court declared illegal his trial on charges of leaking state secrets.

The head of the United Nations children's agency yesterday called the besieged Gaza Strip "the most dangerous place in the world to be a child"