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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

Typhoon Dolphin injures five and cuts power to 14,000 buildings in Okinawa, as China shuts ports and cancels ferries ahead of landfall this weekend

Bangladesh says cricketer Shakib Al Hasan will not play again after he joined a media event with ousted leader Sheikh Hasina

Iraq's PM was invited to Riyadh after US-Saudi strikes killed 20 militants, as Tehran-backed groups delay their threatened response

US Senate passed a sweeping Russia sanctions bill targeting energy revenues, with tariffs up to 500 percent on Russian oil and gas

Pezeshkian says Iran will resist any attempt to force it into submission, as diplomacy advances on reopening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping

Assam floods have killed nearly 100 people and affected 170,000 residents, submerging over 14,000 hectares of cropland in India's northeast

Thailand school shooting: A 14-year-old student killed his grandparents and school staff before shooting himself in Thailand's deadliest attack since 2022

German court gives Afghan man Farhad N. a life sentence for the deadly Munich car-ramming attack that killed a mother and daughter

Bombay High Court convicts ex-Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal of rape in a 2013 case, overturning his 2021 acquittal by a trial court