Hong Kong riot police yesterday fired tear gas and baton-charged protesters who retaliated with a barrage of stones, bottles and bamboo poles, in another tense bout of violence.

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) chief retired judge Sardar Mohamed Raza has refused to administer the oath of office to the newly-appointed members of the electoral authority, saying that their appointment was against the Constitution.

Hundreds of new fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil, official data showed yesterday, amid growing international pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro to control the worst blazes in years.

More than 9,000 anti-G7 protesters joined a mass march over a bridge linking France and Spain yesterday as leaders from the Group of 7 nations descended for their summit in the Atlantic resort of Biarritz.

The Notting Hill carnival is the ideal way to bring together a divided country and remember those who have been caught up in the Windrush scandal, its organisers have said. Matthew Phillip, the carnival’s executive director, said the event

Accusing one another of being “Mr No Deal”, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU Council President Donald Tusk exchanged accusations at the G7 summit yesterday over who will be to blame if Britain crashes out the bloc without an accord.

Former finance minister Arun Jaitley, who died yesterday, had a connection with the Sikh holy city of Amritsar - from relatives to the famous ‘Amritsari kulchas’. In his debut Lok Sabha election in 2014, which he lost to Congress’ Amarinder Singh, he said he had a greater Amritsar

Former finance minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley died at the age of 66 yesterday. Jatiley, suffering from prolonged illness, was admitted to New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences on August 9 after complaints of breathlessness and was put on life support.

Home Minister Amit Shah yesterday said Jammu and Kashmir’s integration with India was completed with the scrapping of Article 370.

President Rodrigo Duterte will no longer visit Fujian province to inaugurate the school building there built in honour of his mother as his trip to Beijing has been cut short, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.

Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go assured the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines Inc. (Phapi) that his panel is willing to listen to their concerns regarding claims payment from the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth).

Squabbles erupted among G7 nations Saturday as their leaders gathered for an annual summit, exposing sharp differences on global trade tensions