Asia

A Gwalior truck accident at a Hindu festival killed 13 people in India, PTI reported, as President Droupadi Murmu called the deaths 'heartbreaking'

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say a supertanker carrying over two million barrels of crude caught fire after hitting a mine in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday

Iran denies Saudi accusation of involvement in Houthi attacks, rejecting claims it encouraged the escalation and offering to mediate between the two sides

The Bangladesh measles outbreak has caused 202,000 suspected cases, more than any other country this year, and experts call it a warning for other nations

Israeli settlers attack US photographer Heidi Levine in the West Bank, leaving her with four broken vertebrae. Condemnation has followed from the US

Indian police detained Abhijeet Dipke, leader of the 'cockroach' movement, before a Delhi protest demanding the removal of the country's chief election commissioner.

Climate change in South Asia could force up to 40.5 million people to move by 2050, the UN migration chief says, pointing to AI and safe migration routes.

China told White House press secretary Katie Zacharia to visit ‘more often’ after she said the country lacked ‘proper toilets’ in an interview

Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian told a nature summit in Armenia that wars of aggression in the Middle East amount to ecocide and must be condemned

Municipal authorities and Delhi Police sealed off Central Park in Connaught Place and prohibited public gatherings ahead of a planned demonstration by the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party

The US is weighing the ‘Mother of All Bombs’ against Iranian energy and nuclear sites if Trump renews combat, CNN reports

Bangladesh arrests two suspects over Bangladeshis trafficked to Russia on promises of high-paying jobs. Twenty are confirmed dead, police said

Houthis vow more attacks on Saudi airports and oil facilities after a strike on Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran that sources say caused extensive damage

Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank village of Mikhmas, a resident told AFP, as the military opened an investigation

An Indian court remanded key Cockroach Janta Party leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka to five days in judicial custody after they scaled police barricades to unfurl the national flag at the newly de-notified Jantar Mantar protest site in central New Delhi

Delhi Police formally stripped Jantar Mantar of its status as an authorized demonstration venue after more than three decades, designating alternative sites in Ramlila Maidan, Burari, and Shahdara

US envoys told Ukraine the Russian diesel deal could “soften” Moscow’s stance and restart talks, three sources told Reuters after a Miami meeting

Iran is reviewing the US response to its Strait of Hormuz proposal and will reply via intermediaries, spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday

Thousands marched in Delhi on Monday to demand India's election chief resign over a voter roll revision, defying a heavy security clampdown in the capital.

The Saudi energy minister said deadly Houthi attacks tested the kingdom’s infrastructure and resilience, and vowed an ‘equally serious’ response