Majority of Filipinos are satisfied with the Rodrigo Duterte administration’s war on drugs, according to a survey of the Social Weather Systems (SWS).

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s election victory from NA-95 Mianwali was challenged in the Lahore High Court (LHC) election tribunal on several grounds.

Like armies they move at twilight, making tactical advance when least likely to be spotted. Only when light becomes shadows and the world loses substance that markhors move down from mountaintops to drink from the River Chitral in north of Pakistan.

The committee constituted to decide the fate of heritage buildings, including the prime minister house, chief minister and governor houses, has proposed to convert the Punjab Governor’s House into a museum or an art gallery, it was learnt yesterday.

The United States and Pakistan will resume their effort to reset a once close relationship on October 2, when Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is scheduled to meet US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in the US capital.

Several thousand people yesterday demonstrated against the planned clearance of a forest in western Germany that has set the stage for a long-running environmental stand-off. Organisers of the protest in Hambach Forest, in North Rhine Westphalia, said 7,000 people took part.

Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday said he would back a second Brexit referendum if his Labour Party votes to pursue the move, heaping pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May whose plans for a divorce deal with the EU have hit an impasse.

Bianca Jagger once defended the Sandinista revolution of Daniel Ortega. But now, the Nicaraguan rights campaigner wants to see the controversial leader leave office in her homeland.

Dozens of people from across Mexico who are searching for missing relatives this week journeyed to the city of Guadalajara, where a scandal has erupted over a truck full of unidentified bodies.

A Chinese naval ship has travelled to Venezuela for the first time, following a visit by President Nicolas Maduro to Beijing this month, where he had been looking to gain China’s support for the Latin American nation’s struggling economy.

Campaigning for Indonesia’s presidential election in April kicked off yesterday, pitting incumbent Joko Widodo against a former military general in the race to lead the world’s third-biggest democracy.

Vietnam yesterday announced a state funeral and two days of national mourning for President Tran Dai Quang, who died on Friday aged 61.