Asia

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.

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