Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden went on the offensive on Wednesday against his main 2020 opponents, but was rapidly assailed on the debate stage over…

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen yesterday criticised Beijing for making “a big strategic mistake” by halting individual travel to the island while her government relaxed rules on Chinese visits in a rebuke to the mainland. Relations between Beijing and Taipei have plummeted since Tsai…

The US and South Korea will press ahead with joint military exercises, a Pentagon official said, defying demands from a furious Pyongyang for their cancellation as it carries out a series of weapons tests. North Korea fired what Seoul called two short-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday after two…

A teenage rape case that has rocked India will be examined by the country’s top court, the chief justice said Wednesday, days after the alleged…

Britain’s Boris Johnson faces his first test at the ballot box yesterday in a by-election that could reduce his parliamentary majority to just one,…

China’s military has released a slick propaganda video showing a drill of armed troops quelling a protest in Hong Kong, in a thinly veiled warning to the city’s pro-democracy movement. The video, posted to social media on Wednesday by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) garrison…

A 72-year-old South Korean man was in critical condition after setting himself ablaze in downtown Seoul yesterday, apparently to express his anger toward Japan amid worsening tensions between countries over trade and wartime history, a police official said. An official from Seoul's Jongno Police…

Rwanda has shuttered its frontier with Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo after a third case of the deadly virus was detected in the border city of Goma, the Congolese presidency said yesterday. The announcement coincided with the first anniversary of an epidemic that has claimed more than 1,800…