The Taliban shot dead the head of the Afghan government's media information centre Friday at a mosque in Kabul.

Brunei’s Second Minister for Foreign Affairs Erywan Yusof to be ASEAN's  special envoy for Myanmar. He will start dialouge process. 

United States has approved its first arms sale to Taiwan amid rising tensions with China. Beijing denounced the sale.

President Biden called for  NY Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign following alleged sexually harassment of 11 women.

Indonesia continues to suffer from the worst wave of the pandemic compounded by the spread of the Delta variant. 

In China, authorites have revised the death toll from last month’s floods to 302 in central Chinese province of Henan.