A court in military-ruled Myanmar yesterday sentenced a photojournalist to 20 years in prison, his employer said, the longest known prison term handed down to a media professional since the 2021 army coup.

The main border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan was closed yesterday as security forces from both countries exchanged fire, Pakistani security sources said.

After the row over the use of ‘President of Bharat’ instead of the traditional ‘President of India’ in the official dinner invitations sent to guests attending this week’s G20 summit, a note on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Indonesia visit to attend the

China’s President Xi Jinping skipping this week’s G20 summit in New Delhi was not unusual and will not affect negotiations to produce a consensus communique at the meeting, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said.

At least 17 people were killed and many more were wounded in a Russian attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka yesterday as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv Wednesday after another night of Russian strikes on Ukraine, with Washington set to unveil more than $1 billion in fresh aid to battle Russia.

2023 is likely to be the hottest year in human history, and global temperatures during the Northern Hemisphere summer were the warmest on record, the EU climate monitor said on Wednesday.

The Indian Supreme Court today protected four members of the Editors Guild of India against any coercive action till Monday in connection with two FIRs lodged in the ethnic strife-affected north eastern state of Manipur

After the row over the use of 'President of Bharat' instead of the traditional 'President of India' in the official dinner invitations sent to guests attending this week's G20 summit, a note on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Indonesia visit to attend the 20th Asean-India Summit and the 18th East Asia Summit has used the term "Prime Minister of Bharat"

China has ordered officials at central government agencies to not use Apple's iPhones and other foreign-branded devices for work or bring them into the office, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Southeast Asia's ASEAN bloc on Wednesday welcomed world leaders to Indonesia's capital for a summit likely to be dominated by worry about rivalry between the United States and China overshadowing the region

China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin skipping this week's G20 summit in New Delhi is not unusual and has nothing to do with India, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told the ANI news agency

The authorities have imposed 24-hour curfew in all five valley districts of north eastern Indian state of Manipur, hit by ethnic strife, as a preventive measure following a call by an outfit demanding removal of security barricade at a particular place, officials said

Su Haijin, one of the 10 accused in the billion-dollar money laundering case, has been slapped with a new charge of money laundering on Wednesday

Arms negotiations between Russia and North Korea are actively advancing, a US official said on Tuesday and warned leader Kim Jong Un that his country would pay a price for supplying Russia with weapons to use in Ukraine

A former leader of the right-wing Proud Boys group, Enrique Tarrio, was sentenced to 22 years in prison on Tuesday for his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the longest sentence so far in the case

Myanmar's junta on Wednesday criticised an Asean statement condemning military violence and the targeting of civilians as "one-sided", a day after it said it would not take up its upcoming chairmanship of the bloc

Torrential rain and winds caused by an extratropical cyclone have left at least 21 people dead in southern Brazil, officials said Tuesday, warning more flooding may be coming

Russia shot down at least three Ukraine-launched drones early yesterday that were targeting the country’s capital, the Russian defence ministry said.

The world inched a step closer towards tackling plastic pollution, with the United Nations publishing the first draft of a binding treaty to tackle the scourge.