Asia

A Hong Kong court on Monday ordered the liquidation of China’s property giant Evergrande, but the firm said it would continue to operate in a case that has become a …

Pakistan’s preeminent rights activist describes the upcoming election as a messy melodrama staged by an emboldened military, unlikely to bring down the curtain on a cast of crises plaguing the …

Pakistan’s social media and internet services were severely throttled Saturday night, as the party of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan held a “virtual rally” ahead of elections in under three …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he told US President Joe Biden that he rejected Palestinian sovereignty in the Gaza Strip, in a call the day before. The …

A senior Hamas official dismissed on Saturday comments by US President Joe Biden about the possibility of Israel agreeing to the establishment of a Palestinian state. The post Hamas dismisses …

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards launched a research satellite Saturday, a minister said, putting it into a higher orbit in a new milestone for its aerospace programme that has faced Western criticism. …

An Israeli strike on Damascus killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ spy chief for Syria and three other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media said, in an attack that flattened a …

Eight people were killed in a factory explosion in eastern China’s Jiangsu province on Saturday, state media reported. The post Eight killed in eastern China factory explosion appeared first on …

EU foreign ministers will hold a series of meetings Monday with counterparts from Israel, the Palestinian Authority and key Arab nations about the war in Gaza and prospects for a …

At least seven people were killed when a landslide hit a house in the southern Philippines on Thursday, a disaster official said, with the death toll expected to rise. The …