Myanmar must have peace to carry out sustainable development, leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday, as human rights activists say conflict in the north of the troubled state of Rakhine ...

Philippine police have stepped up security on the holiday island of Cebu, the president's spokesman said on Friday, after the US embassy warned its citizens that ‘terrorist’ groups could be planning kidnappings there.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Germany of being one of the world’s worst countries for harbouring “terrorists”, saying that Berlin had not responded to requests to hand over suspects from the July 15 failed coup.

Germany’s European commissioner has apologised for offending China, gay people and French-speaking Belgians as the EU executive tried to end days of scandalised commentary that might have jeopardised trade.

The battle for the White House tightened yesterday with a fresh poll showing Hillary Clinton’s lead ebbing and Donald Trump winning over once wary Republican voters days before the monumental vote.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Hasina yesterday warned of tougher actions against any attempt to create disorder in the name of politics under orchestrated plots like that of the 2015 one, staged by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

An influential leader of the Philippines’ decades-long Muslim separatist insurgency voiced support yesterday for peace efforts after rebellion charges against him were suspended and he held a surprise meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte.

Cuba has approved 11 business proposals for its Mariel special development zone over the last year in its quest to boost foreign investment, a senior official said, and two US projects are among those currently under review.

In the ravaged Brazilian valley where a giant mining waste dam burst, killing 19 people and spewing pollution, an incongruous sight pops up: billboards with a grinning workman and the slogan “communicate positively.”

The High Court yesterday struck a blow to the government’s plans for leaving the EU, ruling it must seek parliament’s approval before starting exit talks in a landmark judgement that could delay Brexit.

The ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) presented a united picture yesterday as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav embarked on the first phase of the ‘Samajwadi Vikas Rath Yatra.’

Retired soldier Ram Kishan Grewal was cremated yesterday in the presence of hundreds of mourners in a Haryaya village amid political slugfest over his suicide, ...