South Koreans yesterday pored over every detail of a historic summit in the Demilitarized Zone, transfixed by an extraordinary

Southeast Asia faces "very real" threats from the Islamic State (IS) group despite their defeat in the Middle East, as well as

North Korea's state news agency on Saturday called the inter-Korean summit a turning point for the Korean peninsula, while US President Donald Trump said he would maintain sanctions pressure on Pyongyang ahead of his own unprecedented meeting with Kim Jong Un.

China heap praise on the leaders of the two Koreas for holding a landmark summit, calling their handshake over the Military Demarcation Line that divides the peninsula a "historic moment".

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in embrace after pledging to work for the "complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula," punctuating a day of smiles and handshakes at the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will greet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un today as the latter crosses a military demarcation line to enter the South for the first summit between the two sides in more than a decade, South Korea said.

Armenia's parliament yesterday set May 1 as the date to elect a prime minister in a bid to defuse rapidly escalating tensions as top officials held talks in Moscow.

China flew bombers and fighter jets around Taiwan yesterday, officials said, in a new show of force that the defence ministry said was directed at "independence forces" on the self-ruled island.

A dispute between Kuwait and the Philippines over reports of abuse of Philippine workers took a turn for the worse yesterday with the Philippines expressing "great displeasure" about Kuwait's expulsion of its ambassador.

Former Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Patel is shot dead by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, reports Indian news portal NDTV.

Police yesterday said that dozens of Maoist guerrillas had been killed in jungle raids in India's remote interior by commandos fighting the

A fire tore through a karaoke lounge in southern China yesterday, killing 18 people and injuring another five, as authorities arrested a

Pakistan's powerful military, long accused by outsiders of backing Islamist militant groups, is facing an unexpected challenge -- a

China failed to get India's support for its ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure project at the end of a foreign ministers' meeting of a

Police in a southern Chinese city catches a man suspected of setting a fire at a three-story building that killed 18 people and injured five others.

A bus crash in North Korea has killed 32 Chinese tourists and four North Koreans, the foreign ministry in Beijing said yesterday. Two

China yesterday reassured Pakistan that relations between the two countries were as firm as ever and would "never rust", ahead of a

South Korea halts the propaganda broadcasts it blares across the border at North Korea ahead of their first summit in a decade, as US President Donald Trump cautioned the nuclear crisis on the peninsula was a long way from being resolved.

A 117-year-old Japanese woman, thought to be the world's oldest person, has died, a local official told AFP Yesterday. Nabi Tajima, who

The family of a Myanmar policeman who testified in court that two Reuters reporters had been set up was evicted from their police