Robert Birsel

North Korea has issued new threats against South Korea, vowing "sledge-hammer blows" of retaliation if the its southern neighbour did not apologise.

Authorities in the Thai capital are repairing a damaged flood gate that has become the focus of anger, fear and rivalry between arms of government.

Thai authorities are trying to stem growing anger among flood victims as water swamps new areas and the government maps out a plan of recovery.

Thailand is trying to stem growing anger among victims of its catastrophic floods as the government plots the economy’s recovery.

Libya’s rebels say a Nato air attack has killed Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis, commander of one of the most loyal and best-equipped military units.

A suicide bomber attacked a gathering of displaced people waiting to get aid in north-western Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 40 of them.

More than $800-million has been donated or pledged to help Pakistan’s flood victims, the foreign minister said on Sunday.

Floods are threatening to wreak havoc in more areas of south Pakistan in a catastrophe that has made the government more unpopular.

Aid agencies have provided assistance to hundreds of thousands of victims but relief operations have yet to reach an estimated six million people.

A suspected suicide bomber killed up to 24 people in an attack on the Pakistani military on Monday.

Pakistani aircraft attacked Taliban militants in their South Waziristan stronghold near the Afghan border on Sunday.

Ties between India and Pakistan will not improve while the cloud of last year’s assault on Mumbai hangs over their interactions, analysts said.

Pakistan will defeat the Taliban militarily but could lose the public relations war if it fails to help those displaced, the premier said on Thursday.

Pakistan is battling Islamist militants for its survival, President Asif Ali Zardari told a visiting US envoy.

Violence rocked nuclear-armed Pakistan on Saturday, with a pilotless US drone aircraft killing 13 people including militants in the northwest.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Friday Pakistan had sent India a response to evidence from the Mumbai attacks.

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in Islamabad on Thursday that Pakistan gave assurances that it would root out terrorism.

Pakistan is determined to defend its territorial integrity, it said on Thursday, as anger mounted over a raid by US-led troops on a border village.

Shots were fired at Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s motorcade near Islamabad’s airport on Wednesday, but he was in the car at the time.

Pakistani forces have cleared militant strongholds from three areas in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border and 40 militants and eight soldiers have been killed in…