China on Wednesday announced its five new leaders who will join President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang in the elite Politburo Standing Committee which rules the world's most populous country of 1.3 billion. ....

The NIA on Tuesday arrested Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin's son Syed Shahid in a six-year-old terror funding case, a day after the government decided to open talks with "all stakeholders" in Jammu and Kashmir. ....

India on Tuesday told visiting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that it believes peace efforts in his war-wracked country should be "Afghan-led" and "Afghan-controlled". ....

Three rockets were fired onto a diplomatic area in Kabul on Saturday, Afghan police and witnesses said. ....

Former US Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush have voiced concern about the current political climate in the US, urging Americans to reject the politics of "division" and "prejudice" in comments seen as a veiled rebuke of Donald Trump's leadership. ....

North Korea on Thursday strongly condemned naval manoeuvers that the US is presently carrying out with South Korea on the peninsula, and threatened to launch an "unimaginable strike" against them. ....

Twin suicide bombings and gunfire on a police training centre in Afghanistan's eastern province of Paktia on Tuesday killed at least 41 people including the provincial police chief and wounded over 200 others, officials said. ....

A boat carrying Rohingya migrants capsized off the coast of Bangladesh, leaving 12 dead and over 20 missing, a police official said on Monday. ....

Explosions hit a military check post in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of Kurram Agency on Sunday, leaving at least four soldiers killed and two others injured, the meida reported. ....

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan in a contempt of court case for "repeatedly failing to appear for the hearing and for failing to send a written apology for absence in court". ....