Asia

Iran's military rejected as "lies" Trump's claim of US control over the Strait of Hormuz, saying the waterway is fully under Iranian control

A 500-kg Soviet-era bomb was found in a home garden in Afghanistan, the latest of tens of thousands of war remnant casualties

Iran says the Strait of Hormuz remains under its control after Trump claimed the US has "total control" of the strategic waterway

Gaza cancer patients are dying at two to three times pre-war rates as Israeli curbs and a destroyed hospital block access to treatment

China's C919 jet, billed as a Boeing and Airbus rival, completed its first international commercial flight from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar on Wednesday.

Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, architect of market reforms that fueled China's economic rise, died from illness in Beijing on Wednesday.

North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan on Wednesday, just days before the US and South Korea begin their annual joint military drills

UNESCO report states 2.4 million girls have been banned from Afghan schools since the Taliban's return, warning the exclusion harms the national economy

India probes a sudden Air India flight plunge that injured 24 people, as local media reports the chief pilot failed a secondary drug screening test

Lebanon's parliament abolished the death penalty on Tuesday, becoming the first Middle Eastern country to formally end the practice

Typhoon Dolphin has flooded streets in central China's Hubei province as Beijing braces for over a third of its annual rainfall

Two Pakistanis are reported among 3 crew killed in an attack on a ship near Yemen's Bab al-Mandeb Strait

A Syrian court sentenced Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia on Tuesday, his first conviction since being ousted in December 2024

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Colombia has killed at least 111 people and damaged 1,500 buildings, as rescuers dig through rubble searching for survivors

India's parliament clears the way for merchant fees on UPI digital payments, as the government looks to fund infrastructure and cybersecurity upgrades.

A Saudi factory fire in Riyadh has killed 16 Bangladeshi migrant workers, Dhaka's foreign ministry says, as repatriation efforts begin for the victims.

Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman seeks a "conducive environment" to reset ties with India as Dhaka presses for Hasina's extradition

Jharkhand exam protests intensify in Ranchi as students march on the state assembly and hunger strikers demand an overhaul of recruitment testing

Typhoon Dolphin makes landfall in eastern China with 150 km/h winds, after triggering over 1,000 flight cancellations and mass evacuations.

Nepal rescuers find the bodies of five climbers killed in a Yalung Ri avalanche last year, with recovery efforts underway