Australia will join the US-led mission to protect shipping through the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions with Iran, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced yesterday. Morrison said Australia would send a “modest” contribution -- including a frigate, a P8

China yesterday blasted a huge planned US arms shipment to self-ruled Taiwan and threatened to sanction firms involved in the sale of F-16 fighter jets.

Japan’s wartime emperor Hirohito wanted to express his regret and remorse shortly after World War II but the prime minister at the time stopped him, local media reported yesterday, citing newly disclosed documents.

A suicide bomber kills 63 people and wounds 182 in an attack on a packed wedding reception in the Afghan capital, the interior ministry says, as violence shows no sign of easing despite hopes for a deal on a US troop withdrawal.

Greenland is not for sale, local authorities said Friday, after a newspaper reported that US President Donald Trump is looking into whether it might be possible for the United States to buy the mineral-rich Arctic island.

The United States and China are embroiled in a trade war for almost two years with reciprocal tariffs and fiery rhetoric coming from both sides.

Top diplomats of South Korea and Japan plan to meet their Chinese counterpart in Beijing next week amid a flare-up in tension over trade and history, Seoul’s foreign ministry said yesterday. Foreign ministers Kang Kyung-wha of South Korea, Taro Kono of Japan and

Small Pacific islands nations at risk from rising sea levels lambasted Australia yesterday after it blocked moves at a regional forum to set down tough policies to combat climate change.

New Zealand police launched a manhunt for an armed suspect yesterday after an Australian tourist was found shot dead in a camper van

More than a dozen workers remained missing yesterday after a landslide in southwest China buried a section of railway that was

Chinese state media yesterday vowed there “won’t be a repeat” of the Tiananmen Square crackdown if Beijing moves to quash Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests.

North Korea launched at least two short-range ballistic missiles yesterday, South Korea’s military said, shortly after Pyongyang described South Korea’s president as “impudent” and vowed that inter-Korean talks are over.

The UN Security Council is due to meet behind closed-doors at the request of China and Pakistan to discuss India's decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, diplomats say.

Japan’s new emperor spoke of “deep remorse” yesterday over the country’s wartime past in his first speech to commemorate the end of World War II since his enthronement in May.

Taiwan yesterday unveiled its largest defence spending increase in more than a decade amid rising military tensions with its giant

Pakistan says three of its soldiers are killed in a cross-border exchange of fire in the contested Kashmir region, but India denies that five of its troops are dead too.

A powerful tropical storm lashes Japan, bringing strong winds and torrential rain that claimed at least one life, prompted warnings of landslides and flooding, and sparked evacuation advisories and travel chaos at a peak holiday period.

Hong Kong's airport resumes operations, rescheduling hundreds of flights that had been disrupted over the past two days as protesters clashed with riot police in a deepening crisis in the Chinese-controlled city.

At least 18 people were killed and 14 others missing as Typhoon Lekima lashed eastern China yesterday, downing thousands of trees and forcing more than a million people from their homes.

Super Typhoon Lekima slammed into southeastern China, bringing torrential rain and heavy winds that knocked out power, downed thousands of trees and forced more than one million people from their homes, state media reports.