Asia

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

Indian TV journalists faced attacks during youth-led protests as activists branded broadcasters 'lapdog' media loyal to Modi's government, exposing mistrust

Bangladesh's ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced plans to return from exile in India by December, despite facing a death sentence and arrest in Dhaka

India panel warns Meta over Modi video removal, demanding Mark Zuckerberg apologise within three days after Facebook and Instagram briefly took down the post

India monsoon floods have killed more than 100 people since July, as climate change makes seasonal rains more erratic and deadly across South Asia

UN warns Afghanistan's child malnutrition crisis is worsening fast, as aid cuts leave acutely malnourished children without help

US-Iran talks remain uncertain after a ship was struck in the Strait of Hormuz, as Trump and Tehran offer conflicting accounts

Lebanon and Israel hold a seventh round of US-sponsored talks in Rome, as Beirut pushes for a phased Israeli withdrawal from the south

Bangladesh proposes the death penalty for enforced disappearances after a commission recorded 1,569 cases and 251 people still missing under Hasina

Bangladesh has asked India to clarify its stance on Sheikh Hasina's planned New Delhi speech, ahead of an Aug. 5 event marking her ouster's second anniversary

South Korea heatwave has killed 16 people and sickened over 2,000 others since May 15, ministry says, as record temperatures grip the nation