Thai officials on Saturday ruled out any immediate attempts to evacuate 12 boys and their coach trapped deep inside a system of caves in Chiang Rai province despite concerns over low oxygen levels underground and poor weather forecasts. ....

China on Friday said it will hit back the US with the same amount of tariffs after Washington imposed 25 additional duties on Chinese goods worth $34 billion. ....

Six Indian nationals have been killed in a road accident in Nepal's Sunsari district close to the Nepal-India border. ....

Terrorist groups operating in Kashmir and Naxalites are recruiting children, according to a report by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who urged the Indian government to act against those recruiting children. ....

A court in Pakistan on Friday allowed former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to contest the upcoming elections from his home constituency, overturning an election tribunal's decision to disqualify him. ....

Five people were killed on Thursday in a mass shooting at a local daily newspaper in Maryland in the US, authorities confirmed. ....

Scores of people were feared dead on Thursday evening when a fuel-laden tanker exploded amid traffic in Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos, with the blaze engulfing many vehicles, media reports said. ....

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favour of the Trump administration's travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority countries. ....

A day after resigning as the chairman of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), former President Pervez Musharraf said that he has not quit politics. ....

An explosion hit Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's rally attended by thousands of people here on Saturday. ....