Two police officers were shot dead in the line of duty early yesterday in Edmonton in Canada’s western Alberta province, officials said.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday offered guarded praise to China for brokering a deal between rival Middle East heavyweights Iran and Saudi Arabia, saying it could benefit the region.

Japan and South Korea announced the end of tit-for-tat trade measures and pledged renewed diplomacy as leaders of the two countries met in Tokyo Thursday for a summit to thaw long-frozen ties.

The number of South Koreans who tied the knot last year hit a record low, figures showed yesterday, compounding looming demographic woes in a country with the world’s lowest birth rate.

A new dengue treatment that could become the first to prevent and treat the virus has proven effective in initial trials in monkeys, according to new research.

Two pilots died when an Indian Army Cheetah helicopter crashed near the Mandala hills area in West Kameng district of the country’s Arunachal Pradesh today.

An Indonesian court jailed a policeman for 18 months on Thursday over negligence that contributed to one of the worst stadium disasters in the history of football, but victims' families voiced despair as two other officers walked free.

The doctor who exposed China's cover-up of the SARS epidemic in 2003 has died aged 91, his family confirmed on Wednesday.

A Pakistan court yesterday ordered police to suspend an operation to arrest former Prime Minister Imran Khan, bringing a halt to pitched battles in which police baton-charged supporters of the former cricketer and fired water cannon and tear gas.

A celebrity gossip YouTuber-turned-lawmaker became the first MP expelled by Japan’s parliament in over 70 years yesterday, having not shown up to work once. Yoshikazu Higashitani, known by his online moniker GaaSyy, had been ordered to apologise

Sri Lanka deployed armed troops as trade unions crippled hospitals, ports and banks yesterday to protest against high income taxes imposed as a precondition for a crucial IMF bailout.

Pakistani security forces withdrew from around Imran Khan's home on Wednesday, putting a halt to clashes that had erupted after police tried to arrest the former prime minister for not showing up in a case against him related to selling state gifts.

The stalemate between PTI supporters and security personnel continued for a second consecutive day today as the police and Rangers made a fresh attempt to arrest the former premier in connection with the Toshkhana case

China's birth rate last year fell to 6.77 births per 1,000 people, from 7.52 births in 2021, the lowest on record

Bangladesh and China, for the first time ever, held official consultations on multilateral human rights issues to enhance the existing cooperation in the areas of human rights, especially under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles yesterday, Seoul said, Pyongyang’s second launch in three days and the first since South Korea and the United States began their largest joint military drills in five years.

Pakistan riot police yesterday used water cannon and tear gas to push back supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan who have gathered outside his house to prevent officers from arresting him.

Thai authorities are scrambling to find a cylinder containing dangerous radioactive material that went missing from a power station, officials said yesterday, warning of serious health risks from direct exposure.

Two Pakistani policemen were killed while guarding teams collecting census data in separate attacks claimed by the local Taliban, police said yesterday.

China will once again start issuing a range of visas to foreigners as of today, the country’s foreign ministry said, in a major easing of travel restrictions in place since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.