Associated Press

Australia's new government is urging China to lift official and unofficial barriers on Australian exports.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority says it blocked Wikipedia because a 48-hour deadline to remove content  it said was blasphemous was ignored.

He ruled Pakistan through the first six years of the US military operations in Afghanistan, tensions with India, a nuclear proliferation scandal and mounting Islamic extremism at home.

Four gay couples have filed petitions to India's Supreme Court seeking the legalization of same-sex marriage amid growing tolerance toward the LGBTQ community.

Indonesia is setting up an office of an ASEAN special envoy on Myanmar in Jakarta to spearhead how the bloc deals with the crisis.

Footage released by police shows the suspected bomber disguised as a policeman walking toward the compound with a motorcycle.

Earlier Pakistan’s defense minister had blamed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan for the attack in Peshawar and claimed it operates from Afghanistan.

The two sides have agreed to grant the U.S. armed forces access to four more bases under the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is visiting Japan and South Korea this week, part of a push to solidify NATO's ties with Indo-Pacific countries.

The U.S. defense chief is the latest senior official to visit the Philippines in a sign of warming ties after a strained period under Marcos's predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte.

While the budget provides respite to the middle class through tax relief measures, the 30 percent cut in spending on rural jobs programs will hurt the poor in India’s villages.

Last week, the embassy said that North Korea's capital was under an “intensified anti-epidemic period.”