Zaheena Rasheed

Rul­ing par­ty says Pres­i­dent Ibrahim Mo­hamed Solih won the vote, but his ri­val has al­leged fraud and is yet to con­cede.

Democ­ra­cy icon Mo­hamed Nasheed’s po­lit­i­cal fu­ture in bal­ance as gov­ern­ing par­ty vot­ers head to the polls.

Cheap, ‘good enough’ Chi­nese armed drones dom­i­nat­ing world mar­ket amid US ex­port con­trols, an­a­lysts say.

The scale of vi­o­lence in Myan­mar is sec­ond only to one oth­er con­flict in the world – the war in Ukraine.

N Ko­rea has test­ed a dizzy­ing ar­ray of mis­siles as it seeks to build a nu­clear-tipped rock­et ca­pa­ble of hit­ting the US.

Chi­na’s Com­mu­nist Par­ty is hold­ing a his­toric Con­gress at which Xi Jin­ping is set to clinch an un­prece­dent­ed third term.

Ex­pec­ta­tions grow that Py­ongyang may soon test a nu­clear weapon — and its re­la­tions with its clos­est ally.

Con­tro­ver­sy erupts af­ter Shin­zo Abe’s as­sas­sin says he killed the for­mer leader over his sup­port for a ‘re­li­gious cult’.

His­tor­i­cal feuds over wartime abus­es threat­en to de­rail S Ko­rea-Japan re­la­tions as N Ko­rea steps up nu­clear pro­gramme.