The UN's nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, says it sees no indication North Korea has stopped nuclear activities since Trump claimed a deal.

Taiwan police questions alleged mastermind behind mysterious shootings outside Taipei shopping mall.

Russian President Putin writes to President Ram Nath Kovind and PM Modi condoling loss of lives in Kerala Floods

Rayong man was arrested for allegedly stealing a mother dog for the purposes of sexually abusing it, leaving its eight 10-day-old puppies to starve

Myanmar leader Suu Kyi says terrorism in Rakhine state a threat to region

Woman, child killed in Bogra

A supermarket cashier in Oman has been fired after he posted insulting remarks about the victims of the #Keralafloods on social media

Police suspect murder as Indian found "foaming at the mouth" in Chiang Mai hotel

KCNA: "The [Panmunjom] declaration is a great programme for independent reunification as it indicates the most correct way for reconnecting the severed blood vessels of the nation and the divided territory and opening a broad avenue for national reconciliation and unity."

Explosion reported in Shohada area, in PD8, while clashes continue in Eidgah area in PD1, Kabul.

Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 86km ESE of Hachijo-jima, Japan

KCNA: "Those engaged in a revolution can advance straightly without slight deviationonly when they have a high degree of class self-respectThe people high in class self-respect do not eye things and strength of othersbut create everything necessary by their own efforts."

Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 218km N of Tobelo, Indonesia

Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 154km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia

Agitating locals have enforced shutdown in Bhimdutta Bazar Tuesday, protesting police failure to reveal facts behind the murder of 13-year-old Nirmala Pant.

Kabul – dust and smoke rises from PD1, near the Eidgah mosque, as combat helicopter fires on insurgents hideout in Kabul city after massive rocket attack

Typhoon Soulik will potentially bring flooding rain and strong winds to South Korea this Thursday, reaching Jeju, Mokpo, and Seoul.

At least 3 attackers launched a complex attack. Attackers are inside a warehouse in Bagh-E Ali Mardan less than a KM from presidential palace and MOD , multiple sources in police district 1 in Kabul city tells.

Landlords prepare to welcome new affluent residents to Tsuen Wan with upgraded shopping malls

Army jawan injured in Kupwara district's Tangdhar sector in ceasefire violation by Pakistan

Kabul city under attack by rockets on Eid Day.

Iloilo: Police stations, inspections in preparation for possible NPA attacks

Narsingdi road crash: Death toll rises to 11

Singapore police recover S$27 million linked to China Ponzi scheme

Chinese weather authorities issued fresh warnings on Typhoon Rumbia, indicating heavy rains and strong winds as it roars toward NE China. The violent storm, which has claimed at least 16 lives, was downgraded on August 20 after losing strength.

Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 56km NNE of Namuac, Philippines

China PLA WTC 76GA PCP001 82mm vehicle mounted self-propelled mortar firing in Kunlun mountain range. HR pics released by MND 8/18/2018

China manipulating media perceptions about Doklam in occupied Bhutan. @SCMPNews publishing maps with wrong markings misleading perceptions about threat to SiliguriCorridor. All borders wrongly marked. Baidu map shows India's NationalHighway at 43.6kms fm claimed border.

Police officer in south China's Guangdong Province identifies target using smashed bone model

Woman killed by four-metre long falling tree branch in Sau Mau Ping, Hong Kong

Singapore Police Force (SPF) has issued an advisory to warn members of the public of SMSes (Short Message Service) claiming the kidnap of their loved ones. In a Facebook post

At Least 5 People Killed in New Earthquake in Indonesia's Lombok Island

President Rodrigo Duterte says the country needs more citizens like Ninoy Aquino, as the nation marks the former senator's 35th death anniversary

KCNA: "The room for the education in the revolutionary history is not so good in contrast with those of other units He called for newly building the Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism Study Hall and the room for the education in the revolutionary history."

KCNA: "From the poor arrangement of the sci-tech learning space one can easily know with what ideological viewpointpublic health sector accepted the Party policy on raising the hot wind of sci-tech study, and the hot wind for sci-tech learning can never be raised here, he said"

KCNA: "He noted that he could not understand whether the factory was under remodeling and modernization or not and what had been remodeled and modernized as he could not see any sign of remodeling though it has been two years since the Party gave a warning to it."

KCNA: "Recalling that the Party had already given policies several times to remodel and modernize, he said he cannot but be very concerned about and disappointed by the bad situation of the factory."

KCNA: "Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, inspected the Myohyangsan Medical Appliances Factory."

Earthquake of magnitude 5.1 - 1km NNE of Mapinkebak, Indonesia

6-member team led by drugs inspector of Balasore Rural Range raids 2 clinics in Narsinghapur and Machhua Chhak on charges of selling medicines without licenses; seizes expired drugs from a medicine store in Mitrapur Odisha

Duterte goes live on Facebook, blasts Joma Sison

Multiple strong earthquakes killed at least a dozen people on the Indonesian islands of Lombok and Sumbawa as the region was trying to recover from a temblor earlier this month that killed hundreds of people.

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in Beijing.

China will take part in the East-2018 strategic drills in Russia from late Aug to mid Sept and hold joint military drills on Sept 11-15, which involves 3,200 Chinese military personnel, over 900 pieces of weapons and 30 aircraft, Chinese Defense Ministry said on Mon

The 5 women flee on a speedboat and are rescued by the police and Philippine Coast Guard near the border of Sandakan and Taganak.

Pattani authorities have raided a classroom to arrest two Burmese volunteer teachers and one tourist who was merely observing the teaching. Authorities said being a volunteer teacher without a permit constitutes an illegal job since receiving a meal

2 minors drown in Mymensingh

Thailand Ex-Loei police chief axed over B229m fraud scandal

Four dead bodies recovered in Faisalabad in three days

Kazakhstan is set to send its peacekeeping contingent over to Lebanon in the fall as part of UN operation in the country.

Russia troops on alert in preparations for "Vostok-2018" drill

Russia prepares 'largest war games since 1981' with combat readiness drills: #Vostok2018 military exercise will take place in Siberia and the Far East and will include members of China's armed forces

Gas cylinder exploded in a car in Uzhur city of Krasnoyarskiy kray, 3 wounded

Earthquake of magnitude 5.2 - 178km WSW of Sibolga, Indonesia

Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 4km SW of Karanggedang, Indonesia

President Ghani's spokesman in press conference reiterates that the government's ceasefire is conditioned on Taliban agreeing to the pause

Police in Jiangxi's Shanggao County are hunting for a suspect who has allegedly shot and killed an unknown number of people.

Officers from the Makati City Police who raided and implemented a search warrant for the Times Bar have received an award for the successful operation which led to the recovery of different illegal drugs.

Taliban released all bus passengers detained in northern Afghanistan

KCNA: "Dependence on the outsiders to help settle the issue of the north-south ties will result in leaving the destiny of the nation to the tender mercy of outsiders and tightening the noose of subordination around the necks of Koreans."

KCNA: "Koreans' desire for reunification is daily growing as multi-channel dialogue has been held between the north and the south in accordance with the historic Panmunjom Declaration."

Air strikes reported in Gurziwan district of Faryab province

Surxondaryo region authorities in Uzbekistan are still using forced labour. Uzbek local officials threatened women with small kids to take away their child support if they don't show up for volunteer unpaid heavy manual work on Saturdays.

Khamenei: Dear Hajj pilgrims, don't forget to pray for Islamic Ummah, oppressed people in Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, Pakistan, Kashmir and Myanmar andother parts of the world, ask God to cut the hands of U.S. andother arrogant powers andtheir supporters.

Paktia tribal elders urge Taliban to announce ceasefire

Suicide bomber killed, 4 accomplices arrested in Jalalabad city

KCNA: "Today the moral corruption in the capitalist society can not be controlled any longer. The moral corruption getting serious by the imperialists is an incurable illness."

KCNA: "Reactionary rulers set in motion mass media on their payroll to spread all sorts of the reactionary ideological trends includingracism and misanthropic idea and fin de siecle way of life so as to benumb the healthy spirit of the people and lead them tobenightedness."

KCNA: "The bourgeois morality in the capitalist society turns the human relations into the inhuman relations in which one exploits and oppresses the other, being at loggerheads, and that encourages people to a hard struggle for existence under the jungle law."

KCNA: "The daily worsening moral corruption in the capitalist society is an inevitable product of the way of life in which money is everything."

KCNA: "There cannot be noble and genuine morality of human being in the capitalist society where the interests of people from all walks of life are pitted against one another andinterests of the capitalist class and monopoly financial combines are regarded as absolute ones."

KCNA: "The imperialists and bourgeois reptile media claim that the capitalist society is the most developed and highly civilized society by use of flowery words such as 'ethical morality' and 'model of the modern civilization'."

TV celeb Jacky Wu's son threatens to bomb Taipei City Hall

Allegedly, Taliban abducted scores of people after stopping three passanger buses on Kunduz-Takhar highway in Khanabad district of Kunduz province early morning Monday.

PNP chief Director General Oscar Albayalde hands the "Medalya ng Kagalingan" over to Makati City police officials at Camp Crame. PHNews