In the shadowy margins of Pakistan’s crowded cities and neglected rural belts, a flourishing narcotics trade is exacting a deadly toll. Once seen primarily as a transit route for Afghan heroin, Pakistan now faces a drug epidemic of its own, sustain

Australia will use landmark social media laws to ban children under 16 from video-streaming site YouTube, a top minister said Wednesday stressing the need to shield them from ’’predatory algorithms’’.

Japan and the US have issued tsunami warnings after a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Russia on Wednesday.

rime Minister Narendra Modi concluded a highly successful two-day state visit to the Maldives (July 25–26, 2025), coinciding with the island nation’s 60th Independence Day and the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties with India.

The founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, has approached the Supreme Court of Pakistan to challenge the Lahore High Court (LHC) decision rejecting his bail in multiple cases linked to the May 9 riots, Geo News reported.

Taiwan Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung made a rare trip to Japan, where his stops include a visit to the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported Friday.

The United States and European Union have reached a trade deal framework, ending a months-long standoff between two of the world’s biggest economic partners.

Passengers on an American Airlines flight evacuated onto the runway via emergency slides after the plane aborted its takeoff on the runway in Denver on Saturday. One person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, officials said.

An investigation into the lead poisoning of hundreds of children in western China has revealed an alleged cover-up by the management of the kindergarten at the centre of the scandal.

U.S. President Donald Trumpsaid on Saturday the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand had agreed to meet immediately to quickly work out a ceasefire, as he sought to broker peace after three days of fighting along their border.

China is ’’clearly’’ trying to interfere in Taiwan’s democracy and it is up to Taiwan’s people to decide who should be removed from or stay in office, the island’s government says ahead of a recall vote for around one-fifth of politicia

Hulk Hogan, one of America’s best-known wrestling stars, has died at the age of 71, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has confirmed.

Japan has published its Defence of Japan 2025 white paper, which details escalating threats from a more united bloc of authoritarian countries, specifically China, Russia, and North Korea, as reported by the Eurasian Times.

All 49 people on board the Angara Airlines An-24 passenger plane which crashed in Russia’s far east Amur region have died, TASS news agency reported citing preliminary information from emergency services.

A medical team is likely to visit Dhaka shortly to support burn victims of the recent fighter jet crash in the Diabari area of Bangladesh’s capital, the Indian High Commission in Dhaka said on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump says the US has agreed to a ’’massive’’ trade deal with Japan, one of the country’s largest trading partners.

Militants in Pakistan have started using commercially acquired quadcopter drones to drop bombs on security forces in the country’s northwest, police said, a potentially dangerous development in the volatile region.

An Atlanta-based banker working for Wells Fargo has been prevented from leaving China, the latest incident that threatens to amplify concerns among Western executives about the potential consequences of visiting the world’s second-biggest economy.

A mid-air brawl erupted on an AirAsia flight from Kuala Lumpur to Chengdu after a group of women allegedly refused to stop making noise while cabin lights were dimmed.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to step down following a bruising upper house election defeat, a source told Reuters, as the embattled premier announced a long-sought trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Kuwait and India signed a new air services agreement with an aim to increase weekly air capacity by 50 per cent, as reported by the Gulf News. This partnership will allow the airline operators to raise seats up to 18,000 per week, each direction, up

Construction of a controversial ’’mega-dam’’ on a river flowing through Tibet and India has begun, Chinese state media reported, with Premier Li Keqiang attending a groundbreaking ceremony.

Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar has officially resigned from his post with immediate effect, citing health reasons and the need to follow medical advice. The resignation, addressed to the President of India, was tendered under Article 67(a)

In the vast and contested waters of the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka finds itself navigating an increasingly complex diplomatic tide. Scientific research vessels—once viewed as benign tools for oceanographic exploration—have now become flashpoints in

Over 200 people have lost their lives, including nearly 100 children, amongst those killed since the onset of Monsoon in late June, Geo TV reported on Saturday, citing Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).

China’s ambitions to become a global power face a crisis. The May 2025 India-Pakistan conflict revealed that Chinese military hardware consistently fails in combat conditions, with Pakistan, Beijing’s largest defence importer, suffering operation

Japan’s ruling coalition has lost its majority in the country’s upper house, but Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has said he has no plans to quit.

The head of a House of Representatives panel on China told U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that resuming sales of Nvidia’s H20 chips to China threatens to advance Beijing’s AI capability, stepping up his criticism of the decision and sayin

A 61-year-old man has died after he was sucked into a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine at a medical centre while he was wearing a heavy metal necklace.

During the ICC Annual Conference 2025, it was confirmed that England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have been awarded hosting rights for the next three World Test Championship Finals.