Pakistan has been hit by violence on the day (yesterday-Wednesday) of its general elections – with at least 31 dead in the worst attack. A man blew himself up outside a polling station in Quetta, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. Preliminary, unofficial results suggest ex-cricke...
Malaysia’s central bank governor has resigned, the prime minister said Wednesday, after claims the bank helped the previous regime cover debts linked to a financial scandal by purchasing government land. Muhammad Ibrahim’s days had looked numbered since the new government, which came to p...
North Korea says it has successfully tested a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach the whole of continental United States. State television claimed that Pyongyang had now achieved its mission of becoming a nuclear state. North Korea has fired its highest-ever intercontinental...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (September 26) the United States was prepared for a military option in handling the North Korea nuclear crisis. but warned it would have dire consequences for the Communist country. “We are totally prepared for the second option, not a preferred optio...
North Korea has fired a missile over northern Japan in a move Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called an “unprecedented” threat to his country. The missile, launched early on Tuesday Korean time, flew over Hokkaido island before crashing into the sea. The UN Security Council is expected...
Muslims in the southern Philippines celebrated Eid al-Fitr on today as fighting between government troops and Islamist militants in Marawi City continued for the 35th day. Filipino Muslims bought clothes and food to prepare for Eid celebrations on today, although some shopkeepers like Fatima Fahad sa...
At least 123 people were killed when a lorry transporting oil burst into flames in the Pakistani city of Bahawalpur, local officials say. A crowd had gathered reportedly to collect fuel leaking from the overturned vehicle when it caught fire. Dozens are being treated in hospital. Unconfirmed reports ...
At least 20 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a car bomb explosion outside a bank in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, officials say. Armed attackers have entered the bank and a gun battle is going on with security forces, Tolo News reports. Civilians and members of the security fo...
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will appear before a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in connection with the Panama Papers probe into his family’s assets, Pakistani media reported today. Sharif on Thursday (June 15) will become the first sitting Pakistani Prime Minister to appear before an i...
The Burmese army says debris and bodies have been found after a military plane went missing with 122 people on board. Dispersed wreckage was found in the Andaman Sea, the military said in a statement on its Facebook page. The aircraft, a Y-8 transporter made in China, was carrying 14 crew members as ...
The plane with 116 people on board left the southern coastal town of Myeik in the early afternoon and was bound for Myanmar’s largest city of Yangon, but it lost contact about 20 miles west of the town of Dawei and has been declared missing, the military said. A major search and rescue effort has [&h...
Death toll due to the huge suicide bomb that ripped through a secure area of Kabul at the height of the Wednesday morning rush hour has reached 90 while wounding 400, Afghan officials said. The blast, which came a few days into the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, was one of the deadliest to hit [&helli...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told China’s top diplomat on Wednesday (May 31) that he would like to work with China to try to rein in North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes. Abe was meeting with Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi, who in return said he hoped relevant countries...
Latest media reports highlight the death toll due to the blast in the capital of Afghanistan has reached 80. Blast in Afghan capital of Kabul: 49 killed, 320 injured A powerful vehicle bomb has struck the diplomatic area of the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least 49 people and injuring 320. A pow...
Bangladeshi authorities have evacuated up to a million people before a powerful cyclone makes landfall. Cyclone Mora is likely to hit the eastern coast early on today (May 30), the meteorological department said. Port cities in the south-east have been asked to display the highest warning system know...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned Wednesday that he’ll be harsh in enforcing martial law in his country’s south as he abruptly left Moscow to deal with a crisis at home sparked by a Muslim extremist siege on a city, where militants burned buildings overnight and are feared to ha...
Eight people have been confirmed dead and 11 others were injured after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Taxkorgan County in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 05:58 on Thursday. Witnesses said frequent tremors have been felt after the quake. The search and rescue work is und...
Catholic devotees in the northern province of Pampanga were nailed to wooden crosses in a re-enactment of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion on Good Friday (April 14). Actors wearing costumes of Roman soldiers attached devotees on the cross by hammering two-inch nails soaked in alcohol through their ha...
The North Korean Ambassador in Malaysia left the country on Monday (Mar 6) following an expulsion order by the Malaysian government. Malaysia and North Korea are embroiled in an acrimonious dispute over the murder of Mr Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un, at Ku...