Nepal’s former rebel Maoists withdrew from the ruling coalition on Tuesday, leaving the government without a majority and threatening to plunge the quake-hit country into a fresh political crisis , reports AFP. The Maoists, who hold 80 out of 575 elected seats in parliament, said they wanted to…

Nineteen Myanmar human trafficking victims have been rescued in Thailand, state media and an activist group said yesterday, a rare policing success against criminal networks that dominate the region, reports AFP. The group were discovered by Thai police locked up on an Indonesian-flagged fishing vessel…

US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter arrived in Afghanistan yesterday for talks with President Ashraf Ghani, days after the United States and NATO pledged to keep thousands of troops in the troubled country , reports AFP. Carter flew in to Bagram air base outside Kabul, and was due to meet with Chief…

A fragile ceasefire appeared to hold in South Sudan's capital Juba after four days of gun battles that have left several hundred people people dead…

A suicide bombing at a market near Baghdad killed at least seven people yesterday, officials said, the latest in a series of deadly attacks in and around the capital, reports AFP. The suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives at a wholesale vegetable market northeast of the city, also…