China appreciates US airlines' action and hopes foreign enterprises to abide by Chinese laws, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said on Wed, after 44 foreign airlines, including three major US airlines, changed Taiwan reference before the deadline on July 25

"China is one of our biggest focus areas. It certainly should in terms of the threat and the threat looking into the future," says Ellen McCarthy, nominated to be an asst sec of @StateDept for intelligence and research

The current international order, though not perfect, should not be discarded as one pleases: Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 2018 BRICS Business Forum

Siem Pang district of Cambodia's Stung Treng province is feeling affects from the Laos dam collapse, with some people are evacuated to higher ground today, according to the provincial administration

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said that there was "no winner in a tradewar," calling on the US to withdraw from the wrong path after Trump administration announced it would provide up to $12 billion in aid to US farmers impacted by trade disputes

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari also leading in NA 246 Lyari seat in Karachi

China President Xi, in South Africa, says if there's a global trade war there'll be no winner.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaches Waterkloof in South Africa; He will take part in 10th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg tomorrow.

Landslides, floods kill five children in southeastern Bangladesh

Earthquake of magnitude 2.9 struck Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh at 1852 hours.

Duterte: My visit to 'friend' Trump in US just a matter of scheduling

TOLOnews journalist Shabeer Ahmadi reporting live from Pakistan on the elections says polling stations have just closed and early indications point to Imran Khan, from the PTI party, being the front-runner in today's general elections #PakistanElections2018

Shikarpur: 7 injured in clashes between independent, GDA candidates

President XiJinping on Tuesday called on China and SouthAfrica to continue striving to develop closer ties and join hands to achieve their dreams in development while attending a welcome banquet hosted by his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa

131 reported missing in Laos dam disaster: PM

[email protected] reporter on trial in Myanmar says he was hooded, deprived of sleep and forced to kneel for hours at a secret police interrogation site

Badin: Clash between GDA, PPP workers leaves 5 injured

Faisalabad: 2 men carrying weapons arrested outside NA-105

China being 'vicious' on trade: Trump

At least 19 dead, 131 missing after dam breaks in southern Laos, prime minister says - Xinhua

Singapore’s diplomatic relations with Malaysia are expected to worsen under the new Pakatan Harapan government led by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, said an international research firm

[email protected]: China is targeting our farmers, who they know I love and respect, as a way of getting me to continue allowing them to take advantage of the U.S. They are being vicious in what will be their failed attempt. We were being nice - until now. China made $517 Billion on us last year.

PM casts his vote in Gulkada, Swat. #ElectionPakistan2018

KCNA: "A delegation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China led by Vice-Minister Kong Xuanyou arrived here on Wednesday."

China blames 'independence activists' for axing of Taiwan Olympic event

U.S. official visits South Korea for consultations on North Korea

State media says Laos dam disaster kills 19.

The police is set to file charges against “more than” 20 people after a mob, composed mostly of settlers on a disputed property, killed two security guards in a bloody demolition in San Juan town in Batangas province

U.S. airlines change Taiwan reference on websites ahead of Chinese deadline

Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 117km SE of Sarangani, Philippines

Seven people, including one woman, have been arrested from different polling stations in Karachi for allegedly taking part in rigging

KCNA: "Bourgeois democracy, 'democracy' in capitalist society, is not a genuine oneCapitalism is a society where a tiny minority of exploiting classes holding privileged status rules a majority."

KCNA: "The imperialists and reactionaries persistently tout 'democracy' in capitalist society and 'advantages' of bourgeois democracy, but it is sophism to cover up theunpopular nature of the bourgeois dictatorship and the true colors of capitalist society going downhill."

The ROK government will dispatch emergency relief teams to Laos, suffering from the disastrous collapse of a hydroelectric dam on July 23.

South Korea military prosecution indicts senior Army official for doctoring presidential report on ferry disaster

@AFP pictures from the southern Laos town of Paksong where many survivors of Monday night's dam collapse have taken shelter

Midnapore: Police has busted a motorbike theft gang and arrested 15 people, 118 motorbikes recovered

Mumbai: Miscreants pelted stones and set a bus ablaze in Mankhurd during MarathaQuotaStir. Fire has been extinguished by fire tenders.

Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 90km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia

Final U.S. defense spending bill expands the pushback against China, including forging closer ties with Taiwan

8 polling agents detained as women stopped from voting in NA-86, Mandi Bahauddin

China steel exporters delay shipments, benefiting rivals like Russia that are prowling for market share amid a raging Sino-U.S. trade war

Two Koreas exchange results of search for families separated by war

Several injured in an attack on PPP supporters in Sanghar

Pro-North Korea newspaper slams South Korea for being passive in inter-Korean cooperation

31 killed in Quetta bombing as pakistanis cast their votes

At least 28 people are killed and 35 wounded in a suicide attack near a polling station in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, as millions vote in a nationwide election

Cambodia goes to the polls on Sunday, but without a serious opposition on the ballot sheet Hun Sen is poised to win big and extend his 33-year stay as prime minister

Islamic State claims responsibility for blast in Quetta

ISIS claims Quetta attack in Pakistan

15 killed and more than 20 injured in a blast near eastern bypass in Balochistan's Quetta: Pakistan media

At least 27 people are feared dead following a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, as heavy rains hamper the search for survivors

Seoul to launch special committee on relations with ASEAN

Two militants have been gunned down in the encounter which started in Anantnag this morning. The encounter has concluded, combing operation is underway

6 Afghan brothers gunned down in Peshawar

President Trump touts progress in Afghanistan

17 bodies are recovered after flash floods caused by a dam breach in southern Laos, a Thai consular official at the scene says, adding 'but we cannot estimate the number of missing yet'

President Moon welcomes five new ambassadors to South Korea

South Korea's foreign ministry vowed Wednesday to stay cautious about the possibility of breaching U.N.-led sanctions on North Korea in promoting inter-Korean exchanges

South Korean president orders dispatch of emergency relief team to Laos

KCNA: "The abnormal hot weather holds long in the DPRK before and after the beginning of dog days, affected by the unusually developed northwest Pacific high pressurethe temperature rose to 39.7 degrees centigrade in Wonsan Citythe highest since meteorological observation."

KCNA: "Speakers said that the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War was a military miracle brought by Kim Il Sung'sdistinguished commanding art. They stressed that Kim Il Sung was the sun of life, the future of Korea and the banner of victoryin the 1950s."

KCNA: "A seminar of social scientists was held at the Korean Revolution Museum on Tuesday to mark the 65th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War."

KCNA: "He went round the fermented soybean liquid spore production process newly built at the factorysaying that it is necessary to provide the servicepersons with various soybean-based foodsafter the whole army gave foremost importance to soybean farming."

KCNA: "The respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un inspected Factory No. 525 of the Korean People's ArmyHe said that officials and employees of the factory should always overfulfill the production plan on all indices, bearing in mind the noble intention of leader Kim Jong Il."

[email protected]: "We're also pursuing the denuclearization of North Korea and a new future of prosperity, security, and peace on the Korean peninsula and all of Asia."

Three security personnel were martyred while 13 others sustained injuries after a military convoy on election duty came under attack in Turbat

IMF official says 'no evidence' China manipulating currency

Chinese FM spox Geng Shuang says his country is "ready to work with the new Pakistani government to stay committed to consolidating political mutual trust, deepening across-the-board practical cooperation and making new progress n our all-weather strategic cooperative partnership"

Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 163km SSE of Kute, Indonesia

Three Indian soldiers killed, injured in an attack in Srinagar

Telangana: One naxal killed in exchange of fire between security forces and naxals in Bhadradri Kothagudem district's Kurnavalli forest area; combing operation underway

15 people from Changsheng Bio-tech including its chairwoman have been detained by local police in Changchun, Jilin Province on Tuesday over suspected crime in the production of the rabies vaccine for human use; the case is under investigation

Jammu and Kashmir: One security personnel succumbs to injuries, two security personnel sustain bullet injuries in terrorist attack on CRPF party at Batmaloo in Srinagar. Security forces cordon off a shop where militants are suspected to be hiding

Media will not be able to broadcast any result of the election till 7 pm on election day: Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan

Alert level 5 fire in Jolo, Sulu. Two barangays, Lambayong and Busbus are affected, mostly coastal areas

U.S. airlines poised to change Taiwan references as China deadline looms: sources

An additional 5 billion tons of water has entered the Xe Pian River and officials are warning of a high likelihood of flooding in the lower reaches of the Mekong River. Laos

China had set July 25 deadline for foreign airlines to change their Taiwan references on websites

The collapse at the hydroelectric dam in Attapeu sent flash floods through six villages, Several human lives were lost and several hundreds of people [are] missing. And more than 6,600 people have been made homeless by the floods. Attapeu Laos Floods

Militants attack CRPF party in the heart of Srinagar near Fire Services Department in Batmaloo. One CRPF Jawan reportedly injured. CRPF QAT and J&K Police on spot

China's foreign ministry said China has only exported 7,432 tonnes of refined oil products to North Korea during H1 2018 vs a total of 60,000 tonnes a year stipulated by UN sanctions

Video of collapsed from Attapeu, Laos

South Korea will push for a withdrawal of troops from the DMZ—a prelude to a possible pullout of all troops from the front line—as part of the inter-Korean trust-building process.

Japan's Kishida boosts Abe's chances of staying on as PM

Isis claims to have killed 3 Philippine Army soldiers with artillery shelling in Southern Sulu island.

Indian Frigate Docks at Iranian Port for 3-Day Visit

Lucknow: UP Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and West Bengal police, in a joint operation, arrested two Bangladeshi militants in Gautam Budh Nagar earlier today.

An accident at a dam in Laos's southeastern Attapeu province has left hundreds of people are missing, possibly dead - Laos state media

Hundreds of people missing after dam breaks in southern Laos, government says

'Unprecedented' Japan heatwave kills 65 in a week

Australia honors bravery of divers involved in Thai cave rescue

Japan's Kishida unlikely to run in ruling party leadership race: Kyodo

UN urges Myanmar's government to step up efforts to help Rohingya Muslims return home

Seven killed in Peshawar firing over petty dispute

An Uzbekistani militants was killed in Zabul province during an operation by Afghan forces.

Thousands of Philippine poor nabbed in Duterte's latest war - on loitering