North Korea fired several short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea from its eastern Wonsan region on Saturday, one day after South Korea, the United States, and Japan concluded their trilateral "Freedom Edge" joint military drills
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in New Delhi on Saturday for his first visit to India since 2019 to attend the 18th BRICS Summit, where leaders from the expanded 11-nation bloc face deep internal divisions over the Middle East crisis
Modi and Putin embraced in New Delhi before talks on trade, energy and defense, a day ahead of the 11-member BRICS summit.
Iran and Saudi Arabia discuss regional insecurity by phone as Yemen's Houthis seize the port city of Mocha and fighting escalates
South Korea and Iran's foreign ministers discuss the Strait of Hormuz by phone, days after Seoul weighed a security 'contribution' there
Sheikh Hasina's daughter Saima Wazed quits her top UN job at the WHO after a corruption conviction and fraud allegations in Bangladesh
Anthropic says state-linked actors in China, Iran and west Africa used its AI models for spying, weapons design and dangerous biological research
Israel says it destroyed key Hezbollah tunnels beneath south Lebanon's Ali al-Taher ridge, in strikes felt as tremors across the region
Putin arrives in India for the BRICS summit as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, plus Xi Jinping's first visit since 2019, dominate the agenda
India hosts a BRICS summit as wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, plus economic strain, test unity among the bloc's 11 members.
Bangladesh fights the world's worst measles outbreak as vaccination gaps from political upheaval fuel the spread, with nearly 1,000 dead
Nepal seeks survivors two weeks after deadly floods, with rescuers still searching hydropower tunnels for hundreds of missing workers
Iran says it captured a US submarine drone in the Strait of Hormuz, a Dive-LD vehicle the Pentagon says had malfunctioned
Iran and the US trade strikes as the Hormuz standoff deepens, with Iran attacking a Jordan base and 20 US vessels in the strait
Iran reports significant progress in Strait of Hormuz talks with Oman, as both sides work toward a temporary shipping route deal
Data on the Nepal glacier collapse shows record heat before the disaster, as researchers examine permafrost thaw and snowmelt as possible triggers
A wave of missile and drone attacks launched by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted civilian and economic sites across southern Saudi Arabia, wounding 73 people and prompting the Saudi-led coalition to vow decisive operational retaliation
Iran holds the US responsible for deliberate attacks on civilians, accusing Washington of war crimes as Gulf tensions escalate
Nepal rescuers focus on 900 hydropower workers as officials say 121 could be trapped in flood-hit tunnels near the China border
Israel launches a wave of deadly strikes on south Lebanon, killing 12, as its military vows to keep targeting Hezbollah despite the ceasefire
