President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday personally saw off 17 Vietnamese fishermen who had trespassed in Philippine waters, after ordering their release in a gesture of friendship towards Hanoi.

Mother-of-seven Mah Pari lives in a fertile region of Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province — but her two-year-old son, Gul Mir, is crying from hunger as she cradles him in her arms.

Some liken them to the power-hungry presidential couple in the American TV show “House of Cards.” Others say they think of Lord and Lady Macbeth.

A top Venezuelan opposition leader yesterday accused President Nicolas Maduro of trying to divide his enemies to undermine talks on defusing the country’s political crisis.

India has reaffirmed its commitment to a World Health Organisation (WHO) tobacco control treaty, despite lobbying from its $11bn industry that opposes some measures in the treaty that will be discussed at a conference next week.

A retired soldier’s suicide over one-rank-one-pension (OROP) scheme triggered a political tug-of-war here yesterday as police detained Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia after he met the grieving family.

The troubled London Stadium came under the spotlight again yesterday as Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan ordered an investigation into the escalating costs.

Ireland’s prime minister has warned that Brexit negotiations between Britain and the rest of the European Union could turn vicious.

Members of Bangladesh Nari Sangbadik Kendra (BNSK), a centre for female journalists in Bangladesh, attend a protest in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka.

Sri Lanka’s army yesterday replaced its intelligence chief as the government accused the military of involvement in a wave of unrest in the ethnic minority Tamil heartland of Jaffna.

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, who arrived in Kathmandu yesterday on a three-day state visit, held talks with his Nepalese counterpart Bidhya Devi Bhandari.

When a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck Nepal last year, Barpak, the village nearest the quake’s epicentre, lost 72 people, almost all of its 1,000 traditional mud and stone houses, and its micro hydropower plant.