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

Thailand faced a realignment of conservative politics yesterday, with coalition talks expected to start soon after Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s party clinched a stronger-than-expected victory in general elections.

A glitch with an alarm in January forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster

Thailand’s conservative prime minister claimed victory in the country’s general election yesterday, after television stations projected his party would be by far the largest in parliament after riding a wave of nationalism.

The company is located in Shanyin County, about 400 kilometres west of Beijing

Voting opened Sunday in a Thai general election pitting the popular reformists who came first last time against the conservative who ended up as prime minister

A South Korean cryptocurrency exchange apologised yesterday after mistakenly transferring more than $40 billion worth of bitcoin to users, which briefly prompted a selloff on the platform.

An attacker opened fire at the gates of a Shia mosque in Islamabad yesterday before setting off a suicide bomb and killing at least 31 people, in the deadliest attack of its kind in Pakistan’s capital in over a decade.

Deadliest suicide attack in Islamabad in over a decade

Myanmar’s junta announced a new office advising the president yesterday, a role which may allow the military chief to formally embed his power over the incoming civilian government.

A senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP on Wednesday that "197 terrorists have been killed in the ongoing counter-terrorism operations"