Pakistan's outgoing defence and foreign minister Khurram Dastagir Khan said that positive developments had been made in giving India non-discriminatory market access but the decision was delayed due to the regional situation.
Myanmar's parliament elected a staunch ally of Aung San Suu Kyi as the country's new president on Wednesday, allowing her to maintain a tight grip on top-level decision-making.
South Korean president Moon Jae-in urged the United States to "lower the threshold for talks" with North Korea on Monday as his aides held rare talks with a Pyongyang general on ways to defuse tensions.
United States president Donald Trump on Friday called for strong measures to combat "radical Islamic terrorism."
In a major blow to Taiwan, Panama on Tuesday broke off diplomatic ties with it and established relations with China as cash-rich Beijing exerted its economic clout to wean away handful allies of Taipei.
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with the leaders of Turkey and Iraq about battle for Mosul, where Iraqi forces are fighting to oust the Islamic State group, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
Two political parties left Nepal's ruling coalition on Sunday, deserting the fractious alliance ahead of a vote of no-confidence that Prime Minister KP Oli looks likely to lose.
Afghanistan is marking a national day of mourning a day after at least 80 people were killed by a suicide bomber attack on a peaceful demonstration. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State group.
In a landmark decision, the Sri Lankan cabinet on Tuesday approved a draft legislation to enable issuing 'certificates of absence' for some 65,000 people, who went missing during the brutal three decade-long war with the LTTE, to settle long-pending issues of property for their kin
Brexit backers moved into a lead in the polls for the first time in weeks, raising pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of Britain's EU referendum
Pakistan is "seriously concerned" by India's recent test of anti-ballistic missiles which can intercept incoming nuclear weapons.
At his final White House correspondents' dinner, Obama said that a free press is needed more than ever
President Mukherjee paid homage to the soldiers, killed during World War-II and laid to rest at the Bomana cemetery in Papua New Guinea.