The death toll in Hong Kong’s worst fire in decades rose to 160 after an additional body was identified, police said yesterday, adding that six people were still listed as missing.

A fire tore through a seven-storey office building in Indonesia’s capital yesterday, killing at least 22 people, police said.

PM Takaichi said 30 people were injured in the quake which triggered tsunami waves up to 70 centimetres (28 inches) high

The two countries have blamed each other for the fresh fighting, which saw Thailand launch air strikes and use tanks against its neighbour on Monday

Exports climbed 5.9 percent year-on-year in November, reversing the slight decline recorded in October

The rest of the dead were Indian citizens, mainly the nightclub's staff and holidaymakers from New Delhi

Both countries accused the other of breaching a ceasefire agreement brokered by Donald Trump

Indian authorities ordered an investigation and offered compensation to victims yesterday after a fire ripped through a nightclub in the western state of Goa, killing 25.

Several tourists were among the dead in the blaze, which broke out at about midnight at a club in Arpora in North Goa district

An overnight exchange of gunfire and shelling at a major Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing killed four civilians and one soldier, Afghan officials said yesterday, the latest flare-up of fighting between the two countries despite a ceasefire since deadly clashes in October.

Disaster-hit Sri Lanka has unveiled a major compensation package to rebuild homes damaged by a deadly cyclone, even as the island yesterday prepared for further landslides and flooding.

Eighteen people were killed in an airstrike on a town in central Myanmar, according to a local official, a rescue worker and two residents who spoke to AFP yesterday.

At the Pakistani border town of Chaman, the local hospital said three people had been discharged after suffering minor injuries during the clash

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday agreed to expand and diversify trade beyond oil and defence despite Western pressure on New Delhi to scale back its decades-old close ties with Moscow.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping accompanied French President Emmanuel Macron to Chengdu yesterday, a rare gesture seemingly reserved for the head of Europe’s second-largest economy that highlights Beijing’s focus on Paris in its ties with the European Union.

Pakistan Ministry of Defence yesterday officially notified Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir as the country’s first chief of defence forces (CDF), a day after President Asif Ali Zardari approved the appointment on the advice of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

Indian PM thanks Russian president for his 'unwavering commitment towards India'

Raft of agreements and deals to be announced

Will discuss defence, oil, and nuclear energy

Pakistan will temporarily allow UN relief supplies into Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, in the first partial border opening since deadly clashes erupted between the two neighbours in October.