US President Donald Trump urged North Korea's Kim Jong Un to go "all in" during their high-stakes nuclear negotiations but talks floundered amid differences over sanctions and the definition of "denuclearisation", a senior State Department official said yesterday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and conveyed solidarity of his country with India in the latter’s fight against terrorism.

The peninsula is divided along the 38th parallel between the Soviet-backed regime of Kim Il-Sung in the North and a South under United States protection

Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan is focused on de-escalating tensions between India and Pakistan and urged them both to avoid further military action, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, without saying if he had spoken with his counterparts from either nation.

The Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday offered citizenship to Rohingya refugees, reiterating his willingness to accept them into the country.

A landslide in an unauthorised gold mine in Bolaang Mongondow regency, North Sulawesi of Indonesia buried at least 60 miners, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) says.

China urges India and Pakistan to "exercise restraint" after New Delhi said its warplanes attacked a militant camp, in a move that sent tensions soaring between the arch-rivals over disputed Kashmir.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will hold an emergency meeting, according to the country’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

Japan's Emperor Akihito urged his country to be open to the outside world at a ceremony marking 30 years of his reign yesterday, ahead of his abdication later this year.

North Korea yesterday warned President Donald Trump not to listen to US critics who were disrupting efforts to improve ties, as its leader, Kim Jong Un, made his way across China by train to a second summit with Trump in Vietnam.

Ninety-three workers have died and at least 200 others have been hospitalised in northeastern India after drinking toxic liquor,

Airports across India have been put on high alert yesterday after an airline's operation centre in Mumbai got a call that an Indian carrier's

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's armoured train arrived in China late yesterday ahead of his highly anticipated second summit with US

Sudanese protest leaders yesterday dismissed veteran President Omar al-Bashir's declaration of a state of emergency and vowed to

India yesterday announced its External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will attend the inaugural plenary session of the 46th session of the

South Asia Institute (SAI) of Heidelberg University in Germany on Thursday observed the International Mother Language Day for the first

Myanmar's military yesterday said they would thwart attempts by leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party to alter the "essence" of the country's

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday that the time has come for the global community to "unite and act" to completely

A propaganda app that puts China's powerful President Xi Jinping in anyone's pockets has become a hit in the country -- with a helpful nudge from Communist Party officials.

A UN Security Council sanctions committee has agreed to allow North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's delegation to travel to Vietnam for a