China has sharply rebuked an Australian government MP for comparing the West’s approach to China to what he called the “catastrophic”…

Pakistani anti-corruption officials arrested opposition leader and daughter of former Pakistani prime minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif yesterday, one of the most high-profile arrests in a crackdown on alleged graft. Sharif is the latest member of her family to be targeted under the government of Imran Khan,…

Vladimir Putin has held power for 20 years but he is still well behind the record terms of Cuba's late Fidel Castro and North Korea's founder…

Two dead in explosion at Russian military base AFP, Moscow Two people were killed in an explosion at a military base used for missile tests in the far north of Russia yesterday, the defence ministry said in a statement to news agencies. “During the test of a liquid propellant jet engine, an explosion…