The Maldives yesterday stripped jailed former president Mohamed Nasheed of his pension entitlements and health

The death toll from a Taliban suicide attack in Kabul has more than doubled to 64, officials said yesterday, making it

Taliban gunmen attacked policemen guarding medical workers administering polio vaccinations in the Pakistani city of

Witnesses to a boat capsize off Myanmar that left some 20 people dead, including children, say the victims were from

Aftershocks rattled survivors of deadly Japanese earthquakes, nearly a week after the first one struck, as the area

At least 330 million people are affected by drought in India, the government has told the Supreme Court.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the European Union yesterday it needs Turkey more than Ankara needs the

Former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad, calling for Prime Minister Najib Razak to resign over the 1MDB state

Survivors of a series of Japanese quakes measuring up to 7.3 struggled yesterday with shortages of food and water

The Maldives yesterday cancelled the prison leave granted to jailed former president Mohamed Nasheed to undergo

Afghan security forces drove back Taliban insurgents attacking areas around the northern city of Kunduz, officials said

India has agreed to pay $8.8 billion to France's Dassault for 36 fighter jets, reports said Friday, as sources from both

A huge crane which collapsed in high winds killed 18 people at a construction site in southern China early yesterday,

A protester was killed in Indian Kashmir yesterday as angry residents clashed with police, a day after three people

South Korea's conservative ruling party appears to have lost its parliamentary majority in yesterday's general

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kabul yesterday on an unannounced visit to encourage the revival of peace

Myanmar's Aung Sang Suu Kyi underwent successful eye surgery yesterday, a senior party official said, weeks after the

Myanmar authorities have dropped charges against nearly 200 political activists since Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to

Nearly 60 million people live below the poverty line in Pakistan, making almost a third of the country poor under a new

A Hindu temple in western India yesterday lifted a centuries-old ban forbidding female devotees from entering, after a