Trump, Britain's May discuss North Korea by phone

KCNA: "The situation clearly proves that the U.S. is a harasser of the peace on the Korean peninsula, a chief culprit escalating tensions and a main stumbling block standing in the way of Korea's reunification."

KCNA: "This sinister military act aimed to chill the hard-won atmosphere for the improvement of the north-south ties and reverse the trend of development is an outright challenge to the sincere efforts made by the DPRK to defuse the tension on the Korean peninsula."

KCNA: "Even before the start of the Winter Olympics, there are increasing concerns at home and abroad about the situation on the Korean Peninsula after the Olympicsas the U.S. is toutingresumption of the joint military exercises with south Korea as soon as the Olympics ends."

Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 98km ESE of Vanj, Tajikistan

@statedeptspox: @VP Pence is on his way to Japan to lead the US Presidential Delegation to the Winter Olympics in Korea to demonstrate US commitment to the universal values of the Olympic games and the values that they promote.

Taiwan's premier says 2 killed, 144 injured in earthquake striking east coast city of Hualien.

Two dead, over 100 injured in Taiwan quake, government says

After a magnitude-6.4 earthquake, Taiwan's official Central News Agency reported that the ground floor of a hotel caved in and people were believed to be trapped inside.

Building partially collapses after earthquake of magnitude 6.4 in Hualien, Taiwan

6.4 quake at Taiwan near Hualien. Building collapses reported. Pic: Liberty Times

In Astana, nearly 400 construction workers of the Abu Dhabi Plaza commercial center project held a rally to protest their lay-off, claiming that they received no severance pay or advance notification

30 reported to be trapped inside a collapsed hotel on the east coast of Taiwan after 6.4-magnitude earthquake

Taiwan Earthquake - Magnitude: 6.4 - Off east coast near Hualien - Hotel partially collapses - Other buildings also damaged - Reports of multiple injuries - No tsunami threat

Maldives Supreme Court revokes an order to release nine high-profile political prisoners, reports PTI

Strong earthquake hits just off the coast of northeast Taiwan

AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute's new drone, fly wing configuration

Vikas, a criminal with Rs 50,000 reward on his head has been killed by Police in an encounter in Muzaffarnagar. Two police personnel also injured

The Trump administration is leaving open the possibility of a meeting this week at the Winter Olympics between the @VP and DPRK officials

India says Pakistan violates ceasefire along LoC in Rajouri

Head of North Korean delegation hails good weather for PyeongChang

Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Prisons S K Mishra says he orders inquiry into escape of Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Naveed Jutt. SrinagarTerrorAttack

Porsche pummeled, Corvettes crushed as Philippines' Duterte shows he's tough on tax-dodging

Five more security personnel injured in two blasts that occurred inside Assam Rifles Transit Camp near Khuman Lampak Main Stadium in Imphal West

We don't have animosity towards Pakistan. Pakistan must end enmity with Afghanistan, @ashrafghani says

Fire breaks out at Orchard Towers bar in Singapore; 60 people evacuated

Two blasts occur inside Assam Rifles Transit Camp near Khuman Lampak Main Stadium in Imphal West; Four security personnel injured in the blast.

Myanmar policeman who arrested Reuters reporters tells court he burnt his notes

2.6-magnitude quake detected in North Korea in aftermath of September nuke test

India pledges $31m for the implementation of 108 projects in Afghanistan

The arrest of the Supreme Court Chief Justice and political figures are also reasons for concern. Government continues to carefully monitor the situation: Indian MEA

We are disturbed by the declaration of a State of Emergency in Maldives following the refusal of the Govt to abide by the unanimous ruling of the full bench of the Supreme Court on 1 February, and also by the suspension of Constitutional rights of the people of Maldives: MEA

Pence heads to Olympics leaving open chance of talks with North Korea officials

Philippines National Police chief wants more SAF troopers deployed in Bilibid

Gurdaspur: Border Security Force seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the area of Border Out Post Shikar in Dera Baba Nanak sector; 3 AK-47 rifles along with 6 magazines and 150 cartridges, 2 pistols and 100 cartridges and 6 hand grenades seized

@VP and @SecondLady just arrived Yokota Air Base, Japan

North Korea 'possibly' behind Coincheck hack - sources

Overnight markets. Hong Kong -5%, Frankfurt -4%, London -4%, Paris -3%, Tokyo -5%

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj received by Saudi officials and Indian Ambassador Ahmad Javed on her arrival in Riyadh for Janadriyah festival

North Korea warns South, US against resumption of joint military drill North Korea US South Korea military

Scale and complexity of terror threat to Southeast Asia growing: ASEAN

Asean foreign ministers look forward to safe repatriation of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar

Taiwan brushes off concern about stranded citizens amid China route row

Philippines signs $233 million helicopter deal with Canada to fight rebels

Rebels attack police, free Lashkar militant in Kashmir, 2 policemen dead

Maldives president says judges were plotting to overthrow him

By boat, North Korean musicians arrive in South for Olympic gig

Maldives president says emergency decree is to investigate "this plot, this coup" of Supreme Court ruling

The second policeman injured in the firing at SMHS Hospital has also succumbed to his injuries. He has been identified as Constable Babar Ahmad from Anantnag in South Kashmir

President Duterte on human rights: You don't go to war without losing lives. Tell me what is wrong with saying, "If you destroy my country, I will kill you." Akala mo I will let you live? You're dreaming

President Rodrigo Duterte on his six-month deadline to eradicate drugs: It was a promise which turned out to be a fiasco. I did not expect the magnitude, contamination — even in government | @ClaireJiao

Duterte: I do not have the obligation to lie to anybody. So why would I lie?

Two North Korea taekwondo athletes part of North's women's hockey staff

Rajya Sabha adjourned till 3 PM following noisy Oppn protests over their voice being "muzzled" in the House

Gordon: House, not Senate, should probe Duterte's wealth

Mardan police has arrested the killer of Asma, a little girl who was killed last month in Mardan. DNA of one suspected Person matched in forensic Lab test

Maldives opposition calls for Indian intervention as president imposes emergency rule

DPRK gives high-profile seeing off for art troupe to perform in South Korea during PyeongChang Olympics

Duterte to gov't execs: Take economy class for official trips

US Vice President Mike Pence heads to the Winter Olympics but says North Korea should "end its developments and possession of nuclear weapons"

Jammu-Srinagar National Highway blocked due to landslide at Ramban

KCNA: "U.S. financier Soros at a press conference held on the sidelines of an international conference said that the U.S. is causing conflict with the DPRK while seeking a nuclear war against it, adding that the only way out is to recognize the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state."

Hyderabad: Four members of family allegedly commit suicide by jumping into Keesara lake. Investigation underway

Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi praised Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Burhan Wani in speech made to AJK Legislative Assembly on February 5 Kashmir Day

Three children were killed in a grenade explosion in a private residence in Lianga town in Surigao del Sur.

Marawi siege veterans deployed to man Bilibid

US Navy P-8A 168997 TIGER12 departed Kadena at 0102z - South China Sea mission

Reuters reporters arrested in Myanmar brought to court

Srinagar: Wreath laying ceremony of policeman Mushtaq Ahmed; he lost his life in shooting by a prisoner at Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital

Duterte: That's the guarantee – no dictatorships, no extensions of term for me

The Philippine Supreme Court approves a one-year extension of President Duterte's martial law decree covering the southern third of the country

Duterte: Scrap from destroyed luxury vehicles to be given out

Duterte: Much remains to be done in Customs

At least four people are killed and two more are missing after Indonesia's capital region is hit by severe flooding and landslides

Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, 2 others freed after winning appeal against prison sentence

Delhi: Doctors march from AIIMS hospital to Parliament in protest against National Medical Commission Bill

KCNA: "The busy moves of the U.S. and the south Korean military warmongers are truly disgusting as they seek the resumption of the war exercises against the north behind the scene although they talk that they 'welcome 100 percent' the detente on the Korean Peninsula."

KCNA: "At the instructions of the master, the south Korean military is trumpeting about 'carrying out as usual' the joint military exercises with the U.S."

Confirmed: Policeman lost his life in shooting by a prisoner at Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital in Srinagar

Hundreds of Paktia residents stage protest against Pakistan security forces movements on Durand-line

Philippine President Duterte bans all foreign scientific exploration on a vast undersea plateau claimed by Manila, that China has completed its research there

KCNA: "The confrontational remarks uttered by Song are senseless ones of a colonial stooge serving the U.S. and ridiculous rhetoric of a bete noire unaware of where he has to stand. Song should control his tongue, if he does not want to face a wretched fate."

KCNA: "South Korean Defence Minister Song Yong Muis an imbecile enraging the whole nation by reeling off confrontational rhetoric."

Leaders of South Korea, Estonia agree to boost ties, cooperation

20 smuggled vehicles to be destroyed at the Bureau of Customs. President Rodrigo Duterte will be here later

Korean Air Force plane in #SingaporeAirshow catches fire after skidding and crashing into grass verge at Changi Airport runway

Photo of prisoner Naveed who escaped after firing at police protection party at Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital in Srinagar

Six detainee were being brought from Central Jail. Out of them, one snatched weapons from police and fired at the protection party. One policeman is critically injured and another is injured. The prisoner's name is Naveed. He is probably an outsider: SSP Srinagar Imtiaz Ismail Parray

Maldives' ex-president Nasheed urges India to intervene to resolve crisis

70-year-old man shot dead in Pagadian City

Fire broke out in New Dana Mandi, a vegetable market in Ludhiana

Militants fired shots at Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital in Srinagar when policemen were escorting a Pakistani prisoner Naveed. The prisoner escaped during the firing and militants fled the spot

Srinagar: 1 policeman killed, another injured during firing inside SMHS hospital. 2 (one Pakistani) among 6 militants who were brought for medical check-up escape in the melee

India increases LoC violations to divert attention from Kashmir movement: Mushahid

Two policemen injured after militants fired shots at Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital in Srinagar

Suspect in Sumbul's murder is recipient of pardon in murder of his wife Ghazala Javed and father-in-law

Former leader, two Supreme Court judges arrested in Maldives

Militant attack in SMHS Hospital in Srinagar

China's defense ministry dismissed claims that it has increased troops on its border with the DPRK, calling the reports 'untrue,' adding that China looks forward to the improvement of situation on the Korean Peninsula

Singapore says no strong case to ban cryptocurrency trading

Chinese paper says diplomatic ties with Vatican inevitable

Militants fired shots at Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital in Srinagar and fled the spot

Supreme Court of the Philippines affirms Duterte extension of martial law in Mindanao

UN General Assembly chair to visit South Korea for PyeongChang Olympics

KCNA: "It is the only way for the U.S. and the world concord and peace to urgently detain Trump, who is putting the U.S. and the world in turmoil, in the isolated hospital of psychopaths."

KCNA: "Dolt-like Trump should know that his backbone would be broken, to say nothing of 'bloody nose', and the empire of America would go to the hell and the short history of the U.S. would end forever, the moment he destroys even a single blade of grass on this land."

KCNA: "There is a foolish attempt to make pretence for provocation and pave the road for invasion ahead of conducting the military adventure 'bloody nose strategy' in the invectives of Trump recalling Bush's reckless remarks of 'axis of evil'."

KCNA: "No matter how desperately Trump may try to defame the dignified and just system in the DPRK with worst invectives, he can not deodorize nasty smell from his dirty body woven with frauds, sexual abuses and all other crimes nor keep the U.S. from rushing todestruction."

KCNA: "In the recent 'State of the Union Address', old lunatic Trump said that the DPRK is threatening the U.S. mainland by 'reckless nuclear and missile pursuit'. Not content with slandering the DPRK, he took issue with the non-existent 'human rights'."

India test-fires indigenously developed nuclear capable Agni-I ballistic missile off Odisha coast on Tuesday, Xinhua reports citing local media

KCNA: "What is more intolerable is the fact that Abe tries to make his participation in the Winter Olympics a good opportunity for forcing the south Korean authorities to implement the 'agreement' on the issue of sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army."

KCNA: "Abe is mulling attending the Winter Olympics in a bid to chill the warming climate of inter-Korean dialogue and turn the theatre of Olympics into the ground of confrontation between compatriots."

Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 6km SW of Carasi, Philippines

KCNA: "The art troupe will go to Wonsan by train and then visit south Korea aboard the ship 'Mangyongbong-92'."

KCNA: "An art troupe of the DPRK led by Kwon Hyok Bong, department director of the Ministry of Culture, and Hyon Song Wol, head of the Samjiyon Orchestra, left here on Monday to give congratulatory performance for the 23rd Winter Olympics due in south Korea."

KCNA: "Extending his heartfelt congratulations to Kim Jong Un and the friendly men and officers of the Korean People's Army on the occasion of Feb. 8, its 70th birthday, Bashar Al-Assad in the message wished him bigger success and the Korean people progress and powerfulness."

President Trump formally notifies Senate he's withdrawing nominations of K.T McFarland to be US Amb to Singapore and Kathleen Hartnett White to the Council on Environmental Quality. McFarland faced questions about her work with Gen Mike Flynn and Hartnett her views on climate change.

Chief of Uzbekistan National Security Service Rustam Inoyatov was fired

US Air Force C-32A 99-0004 SAM406 Airborne from Joint Base Andrews - @VP Pence heading to South Korea

Mumbai: Fire broke out at slums near Laxmi Industrial Estate on Andheri - Kurla Road. 4 fire tenders at the spot.

Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 35km SW of Pyu, Burma

Army search operations underway in Pulwama, no encounter reported

Army helicopter patrolling border areas of Rajouri after four soldiers lost their lives in ceasefire violation by Pakistan in BG sector yesterday

Sri Lanka wants a longer-time period to negotiate a free trade agreement with China as it is concerned about the economic impact of a rushed deal

Jammu and Kashmir: Militants lob grenade at an Army camp in Pulwama's Kakpora, Army retaliated. No loss of life reported

"China's on the risethe SovietUnion of our time," warns @RepMcCaul of Beijing "suffocating freedom until its dying breath"

"Securing our nation at home requires protecting American strength abroad" per @RepMcCaul "In North Korea Kim Jung UN has marched down the path of nuclearization in the absence of American leadership"

Minister of State for IBNHandLH @Marriyum A said that China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was all about the people and stressed the need for enhancing cultural collaboration between the two countries to familiarize them about the benefits the mega-economic initiative

Govt will strive to keep all Singaporeans together: PM Lee

Chinese national killed, another wounded in Karachi target killing

Traffic policemen booked over death of 20-year-old man in Islamabad

Hyderabad: 21-year-old student of BITS Pilani allegedly committed suicide in his hostel room

Army Chief General Bipin Rawat pays tribute to Captain Kapil Kundu at Delhi's Palam airport; Kundu lost his life in ceasefire violation by Pakistan in BG sector of Rajouri district yesterday