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Australian mother Leetona Dungay and a team of high-profile lawyers will take a claim over her son's death in custody to the United Nations. Indigenous man David Dungay Jr died after being restrained by five prison officers in a Sydney…

U.S. President Joe Biden brings a grave Brexit warning to his first meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Prevent a row with the European Union from imperiling the delicate peace in Northern Ireland. On his first trip abroad…

Peruvians are still waiting on the final results of their country’s presidential election, as leftist union leader Pedro Castillo maintains a razor-thin edge over right-wing Keiko Fujimori days after the deeply polarised vote. With 99.8…

A military plane crashed on Thursday near Myanmar's second-biggest city of Mandalay, killing 12 people, the city's fire service said in a post on social media. The plane was flying from the capital Naypyidaw to the town of Pyin Oo Lwin…

New corruption cases have been opened against Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other former officials from her government, reports said on Thursday. The cases are the latest of a series brought against elected leader Suu…

The Myanmar Red Cross has said it was stepping up emergency support to hundreds of thousands of people in Myanmar affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the upheaval resulting from the military coup on February 1. The organisation, part…

Pakistan railways officials say at least 63 people died in a train collision in a remote part of southern Sindh province. The officials on Tuesday issued two lists of the victims that included 12 who are as yet unidentified with some…

India reported on Tuesday a daily rise in new coronavirus infections of 86,498 cases over the past 24 hours, the lowest in 66 days, a government report said. Olusola Akintonde/Reuters

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday that she would get her first COVID-19 shot at the end of next week, as the country prepared to receive another 1 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine. "For me, it's been…

Hong Kong will continue to invite foreign judges to its courts and the city's legal system remains "hard as a rock", Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday amid international concern about the impact of a sweeping national security law.…