A bomb attack on a government compound in the Myanmar border hub of Myawady killed five government and security officials and wounded 11 policemen, sources told AFP yesterday.

France was due to receive five Afghan women “threatened by the Taliban” after repeated requests it create a humanitarian corridor for women shut out of public life, an official said yesterday.

President Vladimir Putin said today that Russia was "open" to talks on restoring the landmark Black Sea grain export deal, hours after Moscow pounded one of Ukraine's key grain-exporting ports overnight

Premier Li Qiang will lead China's delegation at a G20 summit in New Delhi this weekend, China's foreign ministry said today, indicating President Xi Jinping would not attend and scuppering chances of a meeting with US President Joe Biden there

US President Joe Biden on Sunday expressed disappointment that Chinese leader Xi Jinping would not attend the G20 summit in India this week, as Washington seeks to repair relations with Beijing

Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov announced on Monday he had handed his resignation letter to parliament after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for "new approaches" to face Russia's invasion.

A bomb attack on a government compound in the Myanmar border hub of Myawady killed five government and security officials and wounded 11 policemen, sources told AFP on Monday

India's Border Security Force (BSF) and Director of Revenue Intelligence recovered 14.296kg of gold biscuits valued at 8.5 crore Indian rupees from a house in West Bengal's Nadia district, which shares a border with Bangladesh

Online trade across countries in South-east Asia is set to become faster and more convenient, as ASEAN starts work on a new framework that could unlock a potential US$2 trillion (S$2.7 trillion) in its digital economy by 2030

Taiwan worked to restore power to more than 30,000 households after Typhoon Haikui barrelled into the east and south of the island, as cities and counties in the affected areas closed schools and businesses and domestic airlines cancelled flights

Two people were killed and six others wounded late Saturday in a shooting in the parking lot of a reception venue in Ottawa, authorities said

Two female Iranian journalists will spend around a month behind bars as part of a three-year partly suspended prison sentence for “conspiracy” and “collusion”, local media reported yesterday.

Japan’s “militarisation” complicates the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council and former President Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday.

Typhoon Haikui made landfall on eastern Taiwan yesterday, unleashing torrential downpours, whipping winds and plunging thousands of households into darkness as the first major storm to directly hit the island in four years.

The number of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats from northern France to Britain hit a new daily high for 2023, UK government statistics released yesterday showed.

Russia launched a drone attack on southern parts of the Odesa region yesterday, hitting Danube River port infrastructure and injuring at least two people, Ukrainian officials said.

Residents of Khartoum awoke to artillery and rocket fire yesterday, hours after an air strike in the city’s south killed at least 20 civilians including two children, according to Sudanese activists.

Gunmen have killed seven Muslim worshippers and injured three others in two separate attacks on mosques in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state, police said Saturday.

Cambodia’s former leader Hun Sen returned to Facebook yesterday, claiming the social media giant had “rendered justice” to him by refusing to suspend his account after he posted violent threats on the platform.

India switched off its moon rover, the first craft to reach the lunar south poll, after it completed its two-week assignment conducting experiments, the country's space agency said