Asia

Rescuers in Indonesia search for survivors after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Flores island, raising the death toll to 47

Israel wants more serious US-brokered talks with Lebanon after deadly strikes on Hezbollah, says Netanyahu's spokesman

Iran remains defiant on the Strait of Hormuz as Trump tells Americans to accept high gasoline prices amid the ongoing war with Tehran

Taliban marked five years in power on Saturday as aid groups warn of a deepening humanitarian crisis and worsening restrictions on women

Iran has called for the release of three pilots it says were captured in Qatar after their fighter jets crashed during the Middle East war

Lebanon says Israeli strikes killed nine people, including three children, in the south, the deadliest toll since June's Hezbollah truce

Modi announces free online coaching and AI training for India's youth, weeks after protests forced the education minister to resign

Reliance Industries and Rolls-Royce plan to jointly develop engines for India's indigenous AMCA fighter jet program

Hormuz traffic grinds to a near standstill as the US threatens more economic pressure on Iran after fresh ship attacks

Israeli settlers diverted Palestinian irrigation water to fill a West Bank pool, part of a wider pattern of water seizures across the territory

Record rains in Japan kill eight and strand thousands at Narita airport, as floods cut power to 20,000 homes near Tokyo

UAE blames Iran for attacks on two ADNOC vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, reporting no injuries as tensions in the waterway escalate

Iran is demanding compensation after an oil spill in the Strait of Hormuz reached its Qeshm island, blaming a foreign bulk carrier

Heavy rain soaked eastern Japan, flooding homes and prompting Chiba's first-ever highest-level warning from weather officials

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.