A South Korean lawmaker, Rhee Cheol-hee, has claimed that hackers from the North have stolen a huge cache of documents carrying information of wartime contingency plans drawn up by the U.S. and South Korea.

In a strongly worded speech, Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., slammed Myanmar’s military for running a “brutal and sustained” campaign to cleanse the country of Rohingya Muslims.

The U.S. Secretary Of State, Rex Tillerson, categorically mentioned China and Russia, as he urged the international community to take direct action against N. Korea as it fired another ballistic missile over Japan.

At least 25 people, including 23 students, were killed and 10 others injured after a fierce blaze broke out at an Islamic school in Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur in the wee hours of Thursday morning.

Myanmar's democracy champion and de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has decided to skip a trip to the U.N. General Assembly next week amid mounting criticism of her apparent mishandling of Rohingya crisis.

S. Korea announced on Monday that it plans to conduct more military drills with the U.S. as tensions spiral on the Korean peninsula after the North tested a hydrogen bomb, designed to fit on to a long-range missile.

History stands in favor of Rouhani as every incumbent president has been re-elected in Iran since 1985.

With a vigilant watch on North Korea’s missile and nuclear development programs, the U.S. began moving its controversial anti-missile defense system to a South Korean site prompting huge protests from locals.

Amid fears that North Korea may carry out another missile or nuclear test, a U.S. submarine arrived in South Korea, further intensifying the tensions sparked by heated rhetorical exchanges over the last week.

According to the Afghan defense ministry, 36 Islamic State militants were killed after the U.S. struck a 300m-long network of caves and tunnels in Nangarhar province with its biggest, non-nuclear bomb on Thursday.