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The framework seeks to advance a 2002 Declaration of Conduct (DOC) of Parties in the South China Sea, which has mostly been ignored by claimant states, particularly China, which has built seven man-made islands in disputed waters.

The Ministry of Home Affairs said Huang Jing, a professor of US-China relations at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, "knowingly interacted with intelligence organisations and agents of the foreign country" with the aim of bringing about a change i...

A council diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was a "high confidence" that North Korea ally China and Russia would support the draft resolution, which was circulated to the 15 Security Council members on Friday.

Indonesia has amongst the strictest drug laws in the world and has been jailing a record number of users and dealers because of what the government says is a drugs emergency facing the country.

Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) holds a solid parliamentary majority and moved quickly to project an air of continuity after the change of Prime Minister.

China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported that the gunman was in his 60s and possibly of Asian appearance, according to consulate officials who cited police.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that 755 US diplomats must leave his country, after Moscow announced it would expel American staff in retaliation for tough new sanctions from Washington.

Pakistan’s leading English language daily ‘Dawn’ said that the brief, emphatic and unanimous judgment struck a blow for accountability and radically altered the political landscape.

The odds are in favour of Nawaz Sharif’s wife Kulsoom Nawaz as picking brother Shehbaz Sharif could bring more legal trouble, sources told CNN-News18.

In a statement, Nawaz Sharif's spokesman said there were "serious reservations" about the judicial process after the court ordered a criminal probe into his family over allegations stemming from the "Panama Papers" leaks.

A unanimous verdict by a five-judge bench of Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday disqualified Nawaz Sharif, saying he had been dishonest to parliament and the courts and could not be deemed fit for office.

One of the contenders to succeed Nawaz Sharif as Pakistan PM is his brother Shahbaz Sharif, the chief minister of Punjab province.

The bulk of abuse was received by a small number of the most prominent politicians like Jeremy Corbyn, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Sadiq Khan.

Thailand's first female PM, whose government was toppled in a 2014 coup, is already facing up to a decade in jail for allegedly failing to stop graft in the subsidy programme that targeted her party's rural farming base.

China and Japan, a longtime US ally, have rival claims over a chain of islands in the East China Sea. Tensions have flashed several times over the Senkaku Islands, which Beijing claims as Diaoyu Islands.

Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose government was ousted by the junta in a 2014 coup, will deliver a closing statement in a separate criminal case over the rice subsidies next week.