Oli hopes to regain control of parliament in the March 5 elections

India routed bitter rivals Pakistan by 61 runs yesterday to qualify for the Super Eights of the T20 World Cup in a clash that had been in doubt until a few days ago.

Opposition continues protest, wants family doctor on board

Beijing will take “all necessary measures” against foreign espionage activities, the foreign ministry said yesterday, after the US spy agency issued a recruitment video targeting Chinese military personnel.

Japanese authorities have seized a Chinese fishing boat and arrested its captain for allegedly fleeing inspection in its exclusive economic zone, an incident that could further inflame tensions between Asia’s top two economies.

President Donald Trump on Thursday revoked a landmark scientific finding underpinning US regulations to curb planet-warming pollution, marking his biggest rollback of climate policy to date.

Thai caretaker Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s conservative party, which won a stunning election victory at the weekend, agreed to form a coalition with jailed ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra’s party, both announced yesterday.

Nearly 150,000 Afghans have returned from Pakistan and Iran this year, with the speed and size of the migration pushing Afghanistan deeper into crisis, the UN refugee agency said yesterday.

Central retinal vein blockage left Pakistan's ex-PM with watery eyes and deep distress, court filing reveals

Colombia declared a state of emergency on Wednesday after floods killed 18 people and left thousands of families displaced in the country’s northern cattle belt.

A teenage shooter accused of killing the principal of a school in Thailand using a police officer’s weapon was in custody yesterday, authorities said, after an attack that also injured two students.

India’s Defence Acquisition Council yesterday cleared an initial proposal to buy 114 Rafale fighter jets from France’s Dassault Aviation for 3.25 trillion rupees ($280.4 billion), local media reported.

Militants killed five police officers in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police said, as the South Asian nation grapples with a rising wave of violence.

A court-appointed lawyer has claimed that jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has been left with just 15 percent vision in his right eye after authorities allegedly ignored his complaints for three months, adding another layer of contention over his imprisonment.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has entrenched his daughter as heir apparent ahead of a landmark party conference, a South Korean lawmaker said yesterday after a briefing from Seoul’s main intelligence agency.

Singapore will establish a national council on artificial intelligence to provide “strategic direction” on the use of the new technology, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced yesterday.

Farmers rallied across India yesterday to oppose a trade deal with Washington which reduces tariffs on US goods, warning that it would hurt Indian agriculture and endanger livelihoods.

Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed the military’s “fight against corruption”, state media reported yesterday, in a rare acknowledgement of graft weeks after Beijing escalated a sweeping purge by probing its top general.

58-year-old was allegedly born in Bangladesh and was trafficked and sold in Pakistan some 35 years ago

The outcome is the LDP's best in its history and allows Japan's first woman prime minister to stamp her mark on the country of 123 million people over the next four years