At least 11 people were killed and 35 injured yesterday by a fire at a shopping mall in Pakistan’s commercial capital of Karachi, officials said.

The Chinese military has begun live-fire drills with Myanmar in a border security move as violence escalates between the Southeast Asian country’s ruling junta and armed rebel groups that are fighting for greater autonomy and return to democracy

At least 11 people were killed and 35 injured Saturday by a fire at a shopping mall in Pakistan's commercial capital of Karachi, officials said

Addressing the inauguration event on his elevation as the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu said he will ensure that the small Island nation “has no foreign military presence on its soil”.

Maldives new President Mohamed Muizzu, who campaigned on altering the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago’s “India first” policy, has requested India to withdraw its military from the country.

Renewed fighting this week between Myanmar’s military and an ethnic minority armed group has displaced more than 26,000 people in western Rakhine state, the United Nations said on Friday.

Renewed fighting this week between Myanmar's military and an ethnic minority armed group has displaced more than 26,000 people in western Rakhine state, the United Nations said on Friday

Seventy-five civilians have been killed in clashes in Myanmar after an alliance of ethnic minority groups launched an offensive against the military last month, the United Nations said on Wednesday

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court yesterday issued a symbolic ruling that the powerful Rajapaksa brothers -- including two ex-presidents -- were guilty of triggering the island’s worst financial crisis by mishandling the economy.

More than 2,000 Myanmar nationals entered India through the border in Mizoram state in the last 24 hours following a gun battle between that country's security forces and rebels in Chin province, an official said yesterday

Ethnic minority insurgent groups attacked security posts in Myanmar yesterday, residents, rebels and an official said, as fighting erupted on two new fronts, and thousands of people crossed into neighbouring India seeking safety.

A Myanmar fighter jet has crashed during clashes between the military and an insurgent group, both sides said, in another setback for a junta facing the biggest challenge to its rule since a coup in 2021.

Almost 50,000 people have been displaced by fighting in northern Myanmar after an alliance of ethnic armed groups launched an offensive against the military two weeks ago, the United Nations said yesterday.

Fighting has raged for two weeks across northern Shan state near the Chinese border, in what analysts say poses the biggest military challenge to the junta since it seized power in 2021

The United Nations expressed concern on Monday about “heavy fighting” between the army and an alliance of ethnic minority groups in northern Myanmar, which has left civilian casualties and displaced more than 30,000 people.

Pakistan’s unprovoked ceasefire violation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Arnia sector, which began Thursday evening and continued till 3:00 am yesterday, forced people to abandon homes in the border village of Bulleh Chak and run for their lives from mortar shells.

A Pakistan High Court yesterday granted bail to three-times former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in corruption cases until October 26, his lawyer said.

Jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was on Monday charged with leaking classified documents, a prosecutor said, a charge that carries a prison term of up to 14 years

Three-time Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif landed in the capital Islamabad on Saturday ahead of national elections, local media reported, ending four years of self-imposed exile

Myanmar’s junta blocked roads and deployed heavy security in the military-built capital Naypyidaw yesterday to mark the anniversary of a 2015 rebel ceasefire that its critics say is now defunct.