'Strong evidence that the Myanmar military and its affiliate militias have committed three types of combat-related war crimes with increasing frequency and brazenness'

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan -- who is currently incarcerated in Attock Jail -- filed a plea in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) today, challenging his conviction in the Toshakhana case by a trial court

Rahul Gandhi returned to India’s parliament yesterday after a Supreme Court ruling, boosting the profile of his Congress party and its opposition allies ahead of a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.

Three-quarters of children in South Asia are already facing dangerously high temperatures, the highest level worldwide, as the impact of climate change grows, the United Nations warned yesterday.

India’s Supreme Court said yesterday it will monitor all cases of violence against women committed during three months of sectarian clashes in the northeastern state of Manipur since May.

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan is being held in a small, dirty prison cell, one of his lawyer’s said yesterday after being given access to the former cricket star in jail as he prepares to appeal against his graft conviction.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan's lawyers were on Monday attempting to launch legal challenges against his three year-sentence for graft that has ruled him out of contesting national elections

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's membership of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, was restored today, three days after the Supreme Court stayed his conviction in a defamation case

Three-quarters of children in South Asia are already facing dangerously high temperatures, the highest level worldwide, as the impact of climate change grows, the United Nations warned Monday.

At least 30 people were killed yesterday when an express train derailed in southern Pakistan, the chief minister of Sindh province said, with an emergency declared at local hospitals struggling to deal with dozens of injured.

Afghanistan’s supreme leader has warned Taliban members against carrying out attacks abroad, the defence minister said, days after Pakistan said Afghans were involved in a spate of suicide attacks there.

Fifteen houses were set ablaze in the Indian state of Manipur’s Imphal West district and a man was shot at in a fresh bout of arson, officials said yesterday.

Pakistani former prime minister Imran Khan’s lawyers could not reach him yesterday after he spent the night in a jail near the capital following his arrest the previous day on a corruption conviction, a spokesperson said.

The highest court in the Maldives ruled today that jailed former leader Abdulla Yameen cannot be a candidate at next month's presidential election

At least 15 people were killed when a train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday

Former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was taken to the district jail Attock on Saturday evening after his arrest from Zaman Park Lahore following his conviction in the Toshakhana case by a trial court in Islamabad

A shallow 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck eastern China in the early hours of Sunday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with state media reporting at least 21 people injured and dozens of buildings collapsed

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui called out the nuclear deterrence policy of G7 leaders as "folly" at the memorial ceremony of the atomic bombing that was also attended by Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida

Police arrested Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Lahore yesterday after a court sentenced him to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts, potentially barring the opposition leader from contesting an upcoming election.

Three people, including a father and his son, were gunned down in their sleep by suspected militants in the ethnic strife-hit northeastern Indian state of Manipur, the Indian media reported yesterday citing police.